Results 20,721-20,740 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Why are we having this Estimates meeting today rather than next week?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Yes but there was a request, was there not?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: I thought that Mr. Watt suggested that we swap the meetings.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Bearing in mind that we are facilitating the Minister this morning and that agreement was reached last Thursday, it is disappointing that this document came to us only this morning. As I said earlier, it makes it very difficult for members of the committee to interact with these figures. I will concentrate on the first few pages of the document the Minister has provided. The reality is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Yes. A lot of the rest is, while interesting in its own right, not business for today, so the Minister has actually provided only pages 3 and 4 in respect of the Supplementary Estimate and a lot of questions arise from that because of the lack of detail. Rather than submitting 22 pages of general stuff that does not relate to this morning's business, it would have been better if we had a...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: It would have been helpful if that detailed breakdown had been provided to assist us. It was not provided at all. Will the Minister explain some of those figures for us? On the acute side, what does the €397 million cover? The Minister says there is a figure of €397 million there.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: What does that entail?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Does any element of it relate to the private hospitals?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: How much is that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: What was the total spend for the year on private hospitals?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: That is the total.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: It was all in the Supplementary Estimate then. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: The Minister had not allowed for any expenditure on private hospitals.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: If we could have a breakdown of the €130 million, how it was spent, that would be helpful. The Minister also talked about a figure of €24 million for therapeutics. What is that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: On the question of the €118 million for PPE this year, was there a separate figure - presumably, there was - in the original Estimate for PPE?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Sorry. There was an original allocation of €679 million for PPE.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: What is the total estimated spend on PPE this year?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: That is the figure in the Supplementary Estimate.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: But this is presented to us as a Supplementary Estimate, in addition to the original Estimate.