The chief executive of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Prof Brendan Drumm, is to hold a briefing meeting at a Dublin hotel for every member of the new Oireachtas in October.
The private meeting, scheduled to take place on the morning of October 16th, will be chaired by the Ceann Comhairle, John O'Donoghue.
According to a letter sent to Oireachtas members at the beginning of this month, the session will address "each member of the 30th [ Oireachtas] on developments and current issues within the health services".
The meeting will be taking place outside of Leinster House, and will be held in the nearby Davenport Hotel in Dublin.
Among the issues expected to be discussed are hospital waiting lists in individual hospitals, the Government's planned co-location programme, and the length of time it takes for the HSE to respond to parliamentary questions.
A spokesman for the HSE said it will also be attended by senior members of the HSE's management team and would include a presentation by Prof Drumm and a question-and-answer session.
He said the meeting was part of a continuing commitment on Prof Drumm's part to be "open and accountable."
The Labour Party's spokeswoman on finance, Joan Burton TD, said a similar meeting last year had been "very very crowded", with attendance from Senators, TDs and even some Ministers.
She said she wished to see the HSE make proper arrangements to provide answers to questions in a "reasonable timeframe".
"There was a very strong sense of exasperation about individual areas and individual issues, and an overwhelming sense of frustration over how to extract information under the new structures," she said.
Earlier this week, The Irish Times revealed that an internal Department of Health document had found the HSE's performance to date in terms of the timeliness of parliamentary question replies "falls far short of what is needed".
This was despite "considerable top-level commitment and initiative" in relation to the matter.
The HSE spokesman acknowledged that there was room for improvement in the length of time it takes to answer parliamentary questions. But he said the HSE had taken on additional staff in this regard and has established a parliamentary affairs division.
Response times are continuing to improve, he said, but delays could arise due to the complexity of some questions and the level of work required to answer them.
He hoped there would be significant improvements over the life of the coming Dáil, as well as over the next year.