The stated aim of the Bill is to: make the Health Service Executive (HZE) more directly accountable to the Minister for Health; and to help prepare service delivery for the next phase of the health reform programme.
minicredit
A visiting academic who is in Ireland on sabbatical offered the following view on structural change last week: Structures are not the problem – you are tackling the wrong stuff.  systems that need overhauling. If he is right, then the reorganisation of the HSE, may, regrettably turn out to be much ado about nothing