Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).

 

The devolution of responsibility to the people providing the services is very important because no one is better placed to manage resources than those who deliver the services. These people will have to cut their cloth according to measure and there is no point approaching Camillus Glynn or any other chairman or member of a health board asking them to get on to the Minister for more money. The Minister will get his budget from the Minister for Finance and he must manage it. When the chief executive officer and the board get the money, they must manage it, and when the people who deliver the health service get their budget, they must manage it. This will ensure that the optimum benefit is gleaned from that allocation, both in the context of quality of service and the value for money aspect.

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