Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

Okay. I want to get to risks because these are also discussed concerning insourcing. Obviously, in relation to managing waiting lists, we have core HSE activity, which Mr. Gloster referred to, and obviously overtime, and then this third wheel of insourcing. We want to get to a seven-days-a-week health service and get more productivity. This is linked to productivity across the health service in relation to a dependency on insourcing. In fact, with the new public-only consultant contract, it will be six days a week, with five over six days. Given the existence of this insourcing, and if continued on its current plan - as far as I can see, the spending is and has been increasing - is this a risk, and what I would call a perverse incentive, to getting to a point where we get more through core activity?

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