Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).
That is the Prospectus report which, with the report of the Brennan commission, has set out a clear agenda of change in the management of the health service. The Government has accepted the need for the wide-ranging reforms recommended. It has decided there will be a single health service executive for the whole country, with its own board and chief executive. It will be accountable to the Minister for Health and Children. The chief executive will be an Accounting Officer and, therefore, answerable for the executive's budget to the Oireachtas.
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