‘No committment to Sláintecare’

The Government’s Sláintecare action plan has been blasted as “deeply underwhelming” by the woman who chaired the committee that produced the Sláintecare report. Social Democrat TD Róisín Shortall said it took “a special kind of brass neck” to produce “another report on a report on a report”, “but still no proper budget”.

“Today’s wishy-washy report is yet further proof that the Fine Gael Government is not remotely committed to delivering... the kind of universal public health service which this country has lacked for so long,” Ms Shortall said. Sláintecare, the Government blueprint for health reform, produced by the Future of Healthcare Committee, has as its core vision a universal single-tier health service, based on need and not ability to pay.