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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Murnane O'Connor, and all the officials from the Department of Health. My first question relates to section 39 organisations, as well as organisations funded under sections 10, 40 and 56. There was a pay deal concluded approximately 15 weeks ago with two pay increases due to be backdated....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That would be great.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Of course. What is the cost?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The point is that we need to see this sanctioned as soon as possible.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. In terms of activity versus investment, many of us here are very much supportive of the increased investment. We need to see a return for it. The Minister mentioned a model 4 hospital with a 3% increase in activity. Which hospital is that?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is the Minister satisfied that the reasons for this relate to issues of rostering or is there something else going on? We saw what happened at Beaumont Hospital, which was reflecting activity levels that were not the reality on the ground. Are there other factors at play here?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is not wrongdoing-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: -----it is just inefficiency.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: No, just to be clear on it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We have seen the NTPF balloon from €55 million in 2018 to €230 million in 2025. The largest percentage increase of all the spending heads is to the NTPF, with a 130% increase. I get that temporary allocations are now being made permanent. We saw what has happened in Beaumont Hospital. I have serious concerns about the operation of the NTPF. What actions is the Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: This involves sanctioning directly employed staff in those hospitals.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is it budgeted for in the accounts for the 2025 allocation or otherwise?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: With regard to the savings and productivity task force, I heard what the Minister said on cumulative savings of €633 million. I would like to see a breakdown for the 2025 targets. The Minister detailed the 2024 savings to a certain extent. I want to understand the agency figures. As Deputy Cullinane and the Labour Party have elicited from parliamentary questions, the agency spend...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I am conscious that I have only a few seconds left. I want to ask about the shortfall of €250 million. There are cumulative savings of €633 million to be arrived at by the end of this year. We can argue about the rights and wrongs of this. The Minister has also identified that she needs to make up a gap or shortfall of €250 million in terms of...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is there any possible relaxation or change to the guidelines?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Regarding capital investment, there is an awful lot riding on the NDP review. The increase this year was a paltry €226 million. What conversations have taken place with the Department of public expenditure regarding procurement rules? That appears to be a major blocker with regards to the major projects above €200 million. I wholeheartedly agree with the Minister with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community nursing home beds specifically available to individuals with Alzheimer's, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided from the years 2020 to 2025 for the employment of HSE-salaried general practitioners, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34576/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The Cabinet today approved the patient safety (licensing) Bill. It is long-awaited legislation and one we very much welcome, but will there be minimum staffing numbers in that critical legislation? The INMO has been campaigning on this for a long time. On cervical cancer, I hosted the 221+ group last week. We saw reports at the weekend that cervical screening is still failing women....