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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Without enforcement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: According to the Minister's response in the past week, Garda recruitment and is at one third of what was pre Covid. The Minister opposite should not use the figures from the pandemic as his baseline to show so-called improvements. He just admitted that Covid distorted the figures significantly. The other point is that for every year the Minister for Justice has been in office, the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of resignations and retirements is greater than that of recruitments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week saw the conviction of Jozef Puska for the murder of Ashling Murphy. This horrific murder shocked the nation and our deepest sympathies and solidarity are with the Murphy family. It is quite clear that we have reached a dangerous tipping point in terms of crime and antisocial behaviour in towns and villages across the country. In recent years under the Government, Ireland has...

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: Tá mé buíoch de na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach. On Deputy Conway-Walsh’s point, has anybody ever got fired from the senior level of the public services for overspending or delaying a capital project in the history of the State?

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: It is interesting. In the private sector, if an individual staff member were to overspend by €1.4 billion and delay a project by six years, the terms and conditions of their contract would be measured against their output. I imagine there would be a negative outcome in terms of that person's job in that scenario. I am getting at the idea of accountability and responsibility at...

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: What happens when that does not happen?

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: There is no higher censure than being brought before the Committee of Public Accounts.

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: They do not do it, obviously.

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: On the capacity of the health service at present, in the last five years there have been 500,000 adverse incidents in the HSE. Some 500,000 people have been injured as a result of an action taken in the HSE. In that five years, approximately 3,150 people have been killed in the HSE as a result of some kind of accident or something that was done wrong in the HSE. The previous Minister for...

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: The Department has done comparative analysis of the funding. Has it done comparative analysis of productivity?

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: Per euro, then, what is the difference between ourselves and the European average in terms of productivity?

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: Can Mr. Moloney give us any productivity comparative analysis?

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: It does seem amazing because when we are talking about funding, comparative analysis in terms of funding is regularly used as one of the answers. The flip side of the experience is the productivity of the system and the Department does not have comparative analysis on productivity in terms of the HSE and other European countries.

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: Any system.

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: Do we know how many layers of management exist per head of population in each country in Europe and where Ireland stands on that? Many people feel that the HSE is phenomenally bureaucratic. It is opaque in terms of its management. It is virtually impossible to have a decision made sometimes at certain levels of the HSE. That is a key issue that I do not believe is being analysed...

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: Would Mr. Moloney be able to give this committee information about management employment levels in recent years? How many people, for example, have been employed within management? I think Mr. Moloney gave a figure of 24,000. What proportion of that total was essentially management?

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?