Not a dead parrot in sight

Dara Gantly asks whether our ambitious health reforms are truly demised. It would seem that reports of the death of the HSE have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, I think it’s just resting. Granted, the publication of the Health Service Executive Governance Bill 2012 — cementing pledges made by Fine Gael before the last election — seemed to write its obituary in legislation, with Minister Dr James Reilly indicating that the Executive was firstly due to be ‘definitely deceased’, as the Pythons might say, in 2014 and then by 2016. But with health reforms, like parrots, things aren’t always as…