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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Has the Department done a comprehensive review of pay and conditions for section 39 employees?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Their counterparts are in section 38 organisations.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Are the businesses plans submitted by these voluntary community disability services and their requests for additional funding necessary because of the inadequate funding provided through grants processed by the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: How many of them have been processed in the last six months?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I mean getting approved.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I want to focus on the specific steps and actions the HSE is taking regarding rural GP services. We are having a major issue in my area where a single GP practice has been subsumed into a larger practice without any forward planning or workforce planning. I am trying to gauge and understand what the policy position is or what steps the HSE is taking to avoid this. There is fear, anxiety...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I appreciate all the good work that has been done on the graduate training programmes and recruitment internationally but I am asking about the here and now and replacing GPs who are moving from one healthcare practice, bringing a GMS panel with them, and that practice being subsumed into a larger practice. Does Mr. Gloster feel there is something fundamentally wrong with not having a...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: The HSE is standing back and saying it is advertising the post and will readvertise it, without any further consultation with the community. The community has a right to know what is happening here.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, with 1,100 patients on a GMS panel.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: He actually accepted a post which was advertised in another healthcare centre.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Well, in this case, it is not. CHO 2 has decided that he will bring the list with him and will subsume it into the larger panel. Does Mr Gloster believe that that is fundamentally right?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, but not in the same healthcare centre. The healthcare centre is 20-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I am just giving Mr. Gloster the distance-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I will follow up on that afterwards. My second question is on the tender process for the national private ambulance service. Can our guests provide an update to the committee on that, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: When was it completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: What is the overall budget which the HSE has set aside for the national private ambulance service?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: In the last remaining minute of my speaking time, a present which continually lands on my doorstep is the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital. Again, the Taoiseach visited the hospital last July with regard to it. There are delays in the submission of the planning application and the design. On the building and estates division within the HSE, has Mr Gloster strengthened that...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Okay. I thank Mr. Gloster.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the R312; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43082/23]