Jack Chambers
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860 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jack Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's why the transition piece has been important in the context of the Rotunda and other maternity hospitals so that people have that trust and support for the universal health system.
And that's why we're providing unprecedented resourcing for our public health system to ensure that there is absolutely optimum quality care of a high standard in our public maternity hospitals.
Absolutely, if you look at how as a government we're prioritising healthcare and how we're resourcing our wider public service.
Well, I would just point to the level of recruitment of senior decision makers, so 236 in 2026 compared to 161 in 2019.
And that's because we want to deliver optimum, high standard care with equity of access for everybody.
And that's the wider direction of Sláinte care since it was agreed a number of years ago.
And what the Minister for Health is seeking to do is to
implement that over the coming period and work with our maternity hospitals to ensure that we have the best outcomes and health care for all women and babies born in the country.
What I'd say is we're transitioning private health care out of the direction of Salantia Care is to take private health care out of our public hospitals.
Obviously, if there are private hospitals that offer a range of services, that's a matter for private hospitals.
But in our public hospitals, we want to ensure public funding supports universal access for everybody.
And that's been the agreed settled health policy for many years.
Well, the Minister of Health has been clear about this.
We'll have phased escalation through the HSE with the rotunda under the service level agreement if they're non-compliant with public health policy and if they're non-compliant with the public only consultant contract.
We can't have certain elements of our health system cherry picking
agreed and settled public health policy or seeking to undermine the public-only consultant contract or seeking to circumvent it in any way.
And as I've said, an a la carte approach seriously undermines what's been the wider direction of public health policy for a number of years.
And that's why I support the Minister for Health in her work in driving reform, in improving productivity and also building a better, more accessible public health system for people so that they see improved, more optimum care.
The Minister for Health expects the Rotunda to respond in a direction of compliance, as we would expect any other hospital under a service level agreement.
What I'd say is we've absolutely gotten our act together.
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