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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: But they are not in college at the minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: What is the plan for the additional staff? Assuming the current cohort coming through our colleges does not all emigrate, and to be honest the Minister knows they are emigrating, and in the event that the Minister manages to massively improve the retention rates for new graduates, we would still need, at this juncture, to have additional people in college to be able to skill up in that area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I fully appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That does not really answer my question. If I go back to my constituents in Balbriggan, what will I say to them? Is it more of the same and none of anything different for a while?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The responses had no reference to including a plan for the relevant facilities, the diagnostic equipment or anything like that. I hear very clearly what has been said, and at some point in the future this may be addressed. I know that time is limited and I have a question on the working group on contraception. Has the Minister received that report? When the Minister receives the report,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure Mr. Breslin has a raft of feminist convictions, but that is not the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I made an observation that I believe it was something of an own goal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is really amusing to see the lads bickering over which of them made a bigger hames of the health service. It has a touch of the old Daz and Surf off it, to my mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We could be here all day debating that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We would also have to talk about partition and we all know Fine Gael does not want to talk about that. With regard to Limerick, the Minister was talking about the additional beds and the building. Just in terms of this winter, how many of those beds are going to be open, if any? In the absence of those beds being open, what is being done to move the patients in the short term? In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I could help the Minister with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, it was hovering about 50%, I think.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: In advance of that does the Minister not think it would be advisable even to meet the co-chairs of the task force?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is grand. I will get her to give the Minister a buzz. Mr. Reid referred to gain sharing in terms of the use of biosimilars and suggested that the money could be ploughed back in. With regard to gain sharing and the conversion of agency staff, this is something I have spoken to Mr. Reid's colleague, Mr. Mulvany, about ad nauseamand, God help him, he never gives a different answer, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is brilliant. Could I be given a number? I presume that if that is the aim, a target has been set. I am aware that targets were not set previously. What Mr. Woods just said would be pretty meaningless if no targets were set. Where targets are set, what is the conversion figure? How many directly employed staff have been taken on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: But no targets are being set.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Is Mr. Woods monitoring where a whole-time equivalent on the roster is converted into a directly employed member of staff or where the money is reinvested in direct employment? I would be genuinely fascinated by the figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If they are not operating within their funding limit, however that is decided, that money just goes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister referred earlier to consultant numbers and the level. How many are locums and how many are not entitled to be on the specialist register, even though they have a lawful entitlement to a contract of indefinite duration, which I would not interfere with? What steps are being taken in this regard? I have seen correspondence indicating there is no specific supervision of doctors...