Details on how the health service will be reformed have been published in the government's Sláintecare report.

With almost a million people currently on waiting lists in our hospitals - figures which Fianna Fáil have described as a national scandal - will the new plan address the issue?

Jack Chambers, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin West, says many patients are dying on waiting lists and that there has been "complete mismanagement of our health service."

"Fine Gael are in government nearly eight years and have yet to set out a real implementation strategy. What we saw today was more generic promises."

Colm Burke, Fine Gael senator and member of the Oireachtas Health Committee, says: "It's a ten-year plan and it will take time to implement."

"32,000 procedures are done every week in our hospitals, therefore you can't change something overnight."

Anthony Staines, Chair of Health Systems in the School of Nursing and Human Sciences at DCU, says it's a good thing that there is a plan with political support behind it.

"Building a health system is something that never stops but it's beginning to move in the right direction. It's really important that we're going to shift care from the hospitals to the community."

"We don't need new hospitals, we need to use the ones we have more intelligently."

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