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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: That is all factual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: It does not deal with what is facing us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: There was no more money available to the Department of Justice and Equality either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: Is there not a built-in contingency in this regard every year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: If the State Claims Agency is left out and indexed separately, is the Minister confident that he-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: What about the capital side?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: How will they be funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: We will know early next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I accept all of that. As we face into a very difficult winter, the Irish people will find it immoral if there are private hospitals advertising for patients while accident and emergency departments in public hospitals are jammed with people on trolleys. The Minister needs to deal with this. I intend to keep raising it. It is completely immoral for this to be happening in 2016 and 2017. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I accept that it is not a silver bullet, but it will help.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: This is a very specific issue. Somebody in the Minister's position will some day have to face it down. I hope that in future years we will deal with the accident and emergency crisis across the country. There are many aspects to it. However, in the short term, this is one way of helping to alleviate it. I understand all the scheduled procedures and the use of the treatment purchase...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: It has-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Minister did not answer with respect to the accident and emergency departments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: Being "open to that dialogue" are lovely words but what is happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: That is an unfair comment. I never said that. If Mr. O'Brien saw the discussion in the Dáil, I outlined how it would not be that easy. I understand the matter but in the pie chart of solving this issue, a percentage could be solved through this method.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I agree with Mr. O'Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Alan Kelly: I know it is true.