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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [22709/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee this morning. Are they happy with the structures over which they preside, their effectiveness and their ability to respond to particular situations, and do they see the need for any changes? I ask this against the backdrop of this committee being very specific during the Sláintecare debate on how the whole country could be represented...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Does that culture involve an "us and them" attitude where we protect our spot and we will repel at all borders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: But it is there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: To what extent is Mr. Devane targeting the sensitive areas such as bed or trolley counts, and the number of persons on trolleys on any given day, which, of course, relates to patients in accident and emergency departments throughout the country? Is Mr. Devane satisfied that adequate attention is being given to each?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We seem to have ongoing trouble attracting and retaining staff. Can Mr. Devane give some indication as to the main reasons for this? We know about the working conditions. That is understood, and we accept it as a given. Do we pay salaries and wages that are comparable or almost comparable with those available in other locations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In terms of nurses, non-consultant hospital doctors or other staff, how do their pay and conditions compare with those available in other jurisdictions, including our next-door neighbours and various other locations, which continually draw from the qualified personnel that we have here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That really was not the question, though. I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I was inquiring about the difference, or whether there is a difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Is Mr Devane happy that he has the ways and means of controlling the element to which he referred and that he is making progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I have a question on the filling of posts. It has been an issue as long as I have been around, which is a while. A number of us were previously members of the Eastern Health Board. We learned whatever skills we have there, or did not learn them as the case may be. Why is it not possible for the HSE to identify the most important and fundamental posts to be filled, so that we will not have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to identify the pinch points at the beginning of the year and decide to deal with them first and talk about it afterwards, rather than not dealing with them until it becomes a talking point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: And we will. I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It wants fixing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Should it not be a given that the board represents patients or the patient voice in every aspect of it and that there is no suggestion in any quarter of somebody deciding to ignore a patient or a culture ignoring patients or patient's needs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and congratulate them on the tremendous work they are doing all over the country, including in my own constituency at the Little Way Cancer Support Centre in Clane, County Kildare, which has done tremendous work over the years. The secret to the centres' success is that they are community-based and that they arose out of necessity. From the beginning, it was recognised...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That concludes Question Time.