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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Okay. I accept that. I will move on to the recruitment embargo because that will have an impact on services towards the end of the year and as we go into next year in what I am sure will be a very busy period not just in emergency departments and hospitals but across all settings. I am looking at the second memo issued to HSE staff. It is interesting that the more we learn about the memo,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Will all posts that were offered and not accepted be withdrawn?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I will stop Mr. Gloster there. The memo says "any offers made and not formally accepted, or where a contract has not issued should now be withdrawn".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: That is not what we are being told by Ministers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: It is clear from the memo that the only exemptions are consultant appointments, graduate nurses, midwives and doctors in formal approved training programmes. Is every other post subject to this pause?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: That is where some of the confusion will come from. I will deal with the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: The memo says that the only exemptions are consultant appointments, graduate nurses, midwives and doctors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Yes, and disability services. I spoke to chief officers who said that home support services are stretched, they cannot take a one-in, one-out approach and they cannot fill vacancies because of this embargo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster is now saying that could change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Okay, so home support services are still formally part of the pause.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: What about nurses who are abroad and want to come back to work in the public system? Can they do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: What if they want to do so this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I am asking about now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: They cannot be recruited because of the pause.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: What about staff in mental health services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: It has not changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Okay. Let us say it is €1.5 billion and the revised Supplementary Estimate is for €1 billion. What happens to that difference of €500 million? Is that then a first charge on the accounts next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I understand that. I am saying it is coming from spend in 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster said on RTÉ radio, a number of months ago at this stage, that the service plan, because everything that happens in healthcare revolves around the service plan, would have a built-in deficit. That obviously cannot be written into a service plan-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: They are also subject to the pause.