Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I propose the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the casemix incentivisation scheme of hospital funding introduced by the Department of Health and Children which, in allocating funds based on previous years' casemix criteria, fails to take into account the unique service difficulties prevailing in certain hospitals, which will have the effect of forcing major hospital managements to process patients like statistics, deflecting them to smaller hospitals, which do not attract the same level of brownie points in terms of productivity, to maintain their own high casemix productivity levels, making vital decisions on purely financial grounds rather than on the basis of care or need.

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