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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Are any of those the 19 in Letterkenny?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Some 19 are closed. Are there plans to open them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: How is that helpful if Mr. Woods has just doubled his figures overnight, by not recruiting another person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is what it looks like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Who can explain why it went from 0.5 to one if Mr. Woods cannot?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure Mr. Woods appreciates that this looks like gaming the numbers. That was his word, not mine. It completely looks like that. Overnight, with the stroke of a pen and without recruiting a single nurse, the HSE doubled the number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a reason they were 0.5 previously. It is because they are student nurses and not whole-time equivalents, WTE. They were not paid as a WTE or considered a WTE because they were learning on the job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I look forward to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The funded workforce plan for 2017 was available but none is available for 2018. Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Has Mr. Woods a funded workforce plan for nursing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Then why are they down in the WRC trying to get one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This is in the papers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: What value for money tools are used for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that we can leave the scopes out of that calculation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: What is the number for procedures carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the HSE use a benchmark? If a procedure costs €1,000 in the public service but €10,000 in the private sector, are the two figures compared? Many of the parliamentary questions to which Mr. Bolger referred were tabled by me and it is a bit like banging my head off a brick wall. We keep being told there are efficiencies in the private sector but I do not buy that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not meant to be a comment on the responses - I am sure people do their best. What comparison is used? I am not convinced that value for money exists in the private sector and I agree with Deputy Donnelly that the NTPF is, at best, a sticking plaster. How does Mr. Woods decide that it is good value for money? We have heard from the head of the NTPF, who is a public servant, to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I would prefer to get the written answer promised by Mr. Woods. I ask for that to be provided before our meeting next week as we will be discuss this again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a brief observation as well for Ms Cowan regarding the high cost of living and the affordability of homes. I do not believe there was the same trouble recruiting at the height of the property bubble. There is more at play than simply the cost of living. I believe it is the conditions in which the nurses and every other grade are working that are contributing to making the HSE an...