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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the problems in terms of productivity I have with the HSE currently is that I know of hospitals where, for example, because of lack of funding or overcrowding in accident and emergency they shut down elective surgery for long periods. It is not that the theatre goes away or that it and the staff who work there do not have to be paid for. Most of the costs are still inherent within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that. All I am saying is that when we ask these questions we get fairly nebulous answers, with all due respect, similar to that answer. It astounds me that when we go into a hospital at this stage that most of the documents are in hard copy and they are shifted around the whole system. We do not have a proper ICT system. During Covid we had a major crisis because people did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. It is interesting that the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, said that the majority of last year's overspend was due to patients presenting for emergency treatment. Is the Minister right? Is it the fault of the patients who presented for emergency treatment that caused the overrun?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This is my final question. It was reported in theDaily Mail recently that Mr. Moloney was involved in negotiations with Robert Watt. Some of the reports said that Mr. Moloney became very angry and that there was shouting going on and voices raised, with people being personally insulted, etc. What is the relationship between Mr. Moloney and Robert Watt in the Department? Is that report a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. If I can, there is just another point that I missed. How many people leave the HSE every year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If there is going to be recruitment freeze, and I imagine that thousands of people are retiring every year, what we are talking about is a net decrease in numbers. Even if a recruitment freeze is not completely across the board and only certain elements within the HSE will be affected by it, will there be a net decrease in staff as a result of the budget Mr. Moloney has provided to the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not a net increase though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: How do we have a net increase if there is a recruitment embargo or freeze in an organisation that is going to shed about 5,000 staff this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When will the pause cease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. Gabhaim buíochas le Mr. Moloney.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: North-South Interconnector (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has received any correspondence from rural community groups expressing concerns over the construction of the North-South Interconnector in Meath, Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list all the empty or unused buildings owned by her Department; and if he will detail their locations. [49413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans his Department has to reduce the risk of flooding nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the disparity between Bus Éireann drivers with regard to illness pay (details supplied). [49780/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Group on National Coastal Change Management Strategy which was recently published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will assign a GP to a person (details supplied) where all local GPs are fully subscribed. [49907/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Inquiries (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 630. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [44814/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: A national hospital that is six years late and €1.4 billion over budget; an opaque HSE coming down with management that can swallow up billions of euro but cannot make a decision; €300 million spent on Dublin metro projects without any construction; dozens of flood defences stuck in a banjaxed planning and court system; not one approval for a wind farm in 12 months and just...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Wastefulness is the question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: A long list I suppose.