{"id":1681,"date":"2021-09-16T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/health-ministers-attempts-to-defer-health-committee-attendance-unacceptable\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:35:34","slug":"health-ministers-attempts-to-defer-health-committee-attendance-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/health-ministers-attempts-to-defer-health-committee-attendance-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister&#8217;s Attempts To Defer Health Committee Attendance Unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_1724021676669167668:q5\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em><strong>It is not acceptable for the Minister to keep Oireachtas members in the dark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Attempts by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to defer his attendance at the Oireachtas Health Committee, to discuss Sl\u00e1intecare, until after the budget are not acceptable, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cA crisis has engulfed Sl\u00e1intecare. There have now been three resignations of senior health service officials because of a failure to implement important health service reforms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe Minister has rightly met with the former Executive Director of the Sl\u00e1intecare Implementation group, Laura Magahy, and will meet with members of the Sl\u00e1intecare Implementation Advisory Council tomorrow.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFollowing these meetings, there is an onus on the Minister to update Oireachas members, via the Oireachtas Health Committee, at the first available opportunity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSl\u00e1intecare is a cross-party policy \u2013 and every single political party in the Oireachtas is invested, or at least should be invested, in seeing it succeed. It is not acceptable for the Minister to keep Oireachtas members in the dark.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe Minister must tell us what is behind these high-profile resignations, why the Sl\u00e1intecare reform programme has stalled and what he intends to do to remove any blockages, institutional or otherwise, that may be in the way of this reform.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt is the duty of the Health Committee to hold the Minister to account for what transpires in his Department \u2013 but it is very difficult to do this important work, in the public interest, if the Minister refuses to attend.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI have written to the Minister requesting that he attend the Committee, as a matter of urgency, next week.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>16 September, 2021<\/p>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not acceptable for the Minister to keep Oireachtas members in the dark Attempts by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to defer his attendance at the Oireachtas Health Committee, to discuss Sl\u00e1intecare, until after the budget are not acceptable, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall. \u201cA crisis has engulfed Sl\u00e1intecare. 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