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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Rogers is absolutely correct. For clarity, there is an acceptance at those meetings that the recruitment embargo should not apply and yet it is repeatedly coming up in those meetings for discussion around the impact it might be having on the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Let us stay on the issue of delay. As Ms Rogers has mentioned a few times, we were expecting to see some of those teams in place in early 2024 but now it will be late 2024, hopefully. Ms Rogers can tell there is a lot of frustration in the room. We had all thought we were moving forward and it seems now that we have delayed. It is worth contextualising that the teams that are already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Were there years in which both of those teams had higher levels of staffing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 300,000 to 500,000 people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. The reason I asked is because I am aware that CHO 4, CHO 6 and CHO 7 are the next branch or rung. Given what we know about staffing and putting those teams in place more than a decade ago - at the last session we talked about how this is not about capital investment or accommodation necessarily, but rather hours and staffing - how long does Ms Rogers expect the kind of transition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Will it take a quarter, or maybe two quarters, to do it? Will it take three months or six months? I am thinking in terms of the practicalities of letting the CHOs know that it is moving forward and the funding is in place, advertising and then people taking up those roles. Are we talking six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Six to nine months, okay. If we are starting in late 2024, we are talking about mid-2025. While I do not like to be too parochial about these matters at committees, I will ask for a selfish reason about CHO 9, which is an area I represent. We are not even talking about CHO 9. When we talk about the catchment areas of these CHOs, we are often talking about populations between 300,000 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. We have a huge concentration of acute services and yet this area, which has a high population and a lot of clinical complexity and clinical needs, seems to be very much last on the list. It is the reason I am asking about timelines and how possible it is to staff. If all the funding was right and the wind was in our favour, would it be possible to have a provision for that in the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I should mention that CHO 5 and CHO 8 are also on that last rung. Are the witnesses hearing from the acute hospitals and settings that having no services to refer out to is an exasperating issue for them, particularly in CHO 9 where there is a concentration of acute settings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Do we know how much funding it was requesting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I presume that an elongation of stay has an impact on the acute services being provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Even three days, when it ticks up, is a huge saving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: To stay on that catchment area issue, while I am not looking for an exact number, in broad terms, what population are each of those teams servicing?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (14 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his attention has been drawn to a correspondence (details supplied) concerning a shipping vessel; his views on the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21681/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department's position on the embargo on recruitment to the health service, particularly its effects on acute hospital services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is under way to reduce wait times and update the paper-based system for the reimbursement scheme for oxygen provision systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21356/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the awards made both with and without a tender process to management consultancy firms (details supplied) by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department for each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form and classed by firm; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (9 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of exemptions sought under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989 which he refused in each of the years 2020 to present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the awards made both with and without a tender process to management consultancy firms (details supplied) by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department for each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form and classed by firm; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the awards made both with and without a tender process to management consultancy firms (details supplied) by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department for each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form and classed by firm; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline...