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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Watt accept there is a need for restructuring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why was it not done ten years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We know the answer to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: One of the five pillars of Sláintecare relates to the question of removing cost as a barrier to access, and we have been talking about that in respect of a few different matters this morning. At the root of that is the fact there is no legal entitlement to healthcare, unlike an entitlement to, say, social protection. It was identified that we are unusual in this country in not having a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The slow, incremental increase in access, however, is not going to do it for us. The recommendation was that over the first five years of Sláintecare, we would move to free access. The whim of cutting a few bob here and there from each budget does not really do it. We need to start looking at what the legal entitlement to healthcare is for a resident of this country. I ask the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What is the thinking behind having two sites and splitting the provision rather having one that will cater for the demand that is there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Where did this idea come from? It is new today to hear consideration is being given to providing two elective hospitals in the Dublin area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has it come at a political level or has the Department come to the conclusion on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Department give us a background note on that? This is a new development it has announced today, and it would be good to know the thinking behind it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has consideration been given to purchasing an existing private facility for an elective hospital in Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We have talked about this on several occasions previously. It is what was done in Edinburgh, where buying a private clinic was deemed the quickest and most effective way of providing proper elective services. Has that not been considered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I asked whether consideration had been given to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is unfortunate, because it has been proposed several times. I want to move on to an issue I referred to earlier, regarding the board of the HSE following Mr. Lenihan's departure, which is a matter of concern. He raised very significant issues for the Department and at a political level. I understand that since his departure, he has been replaced by someone who does not have the kind...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Was Mr. Gloster notified of the new person being appointed to the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that likely to continue or will there be a replacement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Were any lessons learned from that? Was there an exit interview with Mr. Lenihan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is short of what was recommended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It does not provide for what was in the expert report.