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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who does the clinical director report to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: A lot of the hospitals are voluntary hospitals, essentially private or outside the public hospital system. Where does that data come back into the public arena to ensure that we are getting value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Are those reports published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: As our guests know, the oversight did not work on previous occasions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How do we ensure we are getting value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How is it established in the public arena, that is, that we are getting value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is the reporting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is too much that is vague here for my liking because the oversight of the last contract was exceptionally vague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How do you know that they are actually doing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: But that does not come down to the level of the individual consultant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who has oversight of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Again, who has oversight of the chief executive of the hospitals? I ask because a lot of chief executives would say it is not possible to get that kind of agreement-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: -----or accountability, in reporting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I recall Professor Tom Keane saying the most important thing that we should do, in terms of reform of the health service, is to ensure that kind of accountability at local hospital level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: In other countries, including Canada, there is an annual performance review. Is there any proposal to do that given the very generous contract that has now been taken up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I know that. How does one establish the performance of those 35 hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do any of those reports come to you?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is that in the context of the RHAs?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if a company will be in a position to begin the diabetic retina screening programme in January 2024 (details supplied); if this organisation has signed its contract with the National Screening Service; the reason the National Screening Service appointed a sole bidder for all of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54381/23]

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and to highlight the Social Democrats concerns about the Government's funding of key public services. While I will refer to some of the amounts provided for in the Bill, I begin my contribution by raising the most pressing spending issue of the day, which is what would appear to be the deliberate decision by the Minister for public...