Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).
I hope the Minister will expedite this change as quickly as possible. He is being congratulated for consulting with people throughout the country. I would expect him to do that because he must sell this package. It will probably keep him in the news for a long time, just as it kept the Government in the news when it was announcing the health strategy prior to the election. It was to be the panacea for all the health problems. What has happened to that document? What has happened to the promises embodied within it? This is an effort to change the structure of the administration. However, it will not happen unless there is parallel development in relation to the expenditure required for the extra beds and teasing out the system in order to ensure that we do not have long waiting lists, or a queue waiting to join a queue to get on a waiting list. There are difficulties in relation to a whole range of surgical activities within the health board system.
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