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Taoiseach “dismissed” Shortall’s concerns over Reilly’s health service reforms New Health Minister Leo Varadkar was recently told Reilly’s HSE reforms were “unworkable”.
The former Labour Junior Minister, who resigned from her post in 2012, spoke to This Week on RTÉ today, saying that she had major concerns about Reilly’s proposed reforms, and that she had brought them to the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny in 2012.
This is because she “would have had the view for some time that there was very little coherence to the proposals that Minister Reilly had for the Health Service”. And I found it very difficult to understand exactly his direction of travel in this. It just didn’t hang together and in my view was a recipe for a disjointed health service
She said that in this case, Reilly’s proposals “were in effect approved every step of the way by Cabinet” and there were various different versions of the proposals that were “supported and approved by Cabinet”.
Shortall said she asked James Reilly to show a “roadmap” made for fighters of how the health service was to get to the reforms. She did an outline herself of how she saw things “shaping up”, which she gave to Reilly.
They all met in July 2012, but Shortall said she “didn’t get much of a hearing” and “those serious concerns [that she had] were essentially dismissed by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste”.
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