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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. Gloster and Mr. Watt. I have a couple of preliminary questions. What is a letter of determination?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: How much does Mr. Gloster think he has?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: If I was a member of the public, I would be asking where my concerns should lie in terms of service provision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: I admire Mr. Gloster for standing by his statements of last Sunday week. It is ballsy, if the Chair will forgive my language. Others might have resiled from them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: It might take a bit of pressure off him. The Secretary General talked about the affordability piece and one of the things that might lead to another headline is access to State-funded GP care. I know that is Government policy but I also know that on the ground GPs have issues with it in terms of clogging up surgeries. There is a shortage of GPs and kids with runny noses are continuously...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: That is fine but I look at the NHS and despair. In my personal view, we must look at universal payments because universal availability creates issues in the system. People who need care do not get in when they need it. GPs also have some very strong views on the invidious position it places parents in vis-à-vis their children and their children's illnesses. The Secretary General has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: Will Mr. Watt give us a concrete example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: Is Mr. Watt saying that the outputs in some hospitals are lower than the outputs in other hospitals, notwithstanding some different challenges they may face?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: I have a final question. Mr. Watt's opening statement mentioned biolsimilar medicines and the transfer. Is there any possibility of moving towards switching to biosimilar medicines in a more general way to ensure savings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: I have a question for the CEO. Mr. Gloster stated that he has not been asked to make cuts for next year but that there will be a deficit next year. He outlined in his opening statement, if I am summarising it accurately and fairly, that he is looking at consolidation of some of the gains that have been made but no more growth in those areas. That sounds like a cut. It sounds like a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: Nevertheless, in his interview Mr. Gloster mentioned it would affect junior doctors and a wide range of things.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: No, I am just trying to drill into it. What can we expect? I cannot be specific. Consolidation is not bad - it is positive because it is not a cut - but if growth or further advances were anticipated and are not happening, growth is restricted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: What I am getting at is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: What I am driving at is that although conversations have not taken place, it seems from the statement Mr. Gloster made, that he is accepting a smaller envelope.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: We looked at the idea of two elective hospitals for Dublin. I do not want to get bogged down in local stuff but are we still on track for those as a result of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: It has been said that Mr. Watt might have brought a public expenditure mentality to the Department of Health. What might that look like?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: Is it a bad thing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: What is the health budget oversight group in the Department? What does it do and who is on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: What has been a big focus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
John Lahart: Officials from the HSE and the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform attend. Who from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform attends?