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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Fair enough and I have recently met some groups, particularly Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS, in Cork who very articulately, in collaboration with Inclusion Ireland, have talked about the more than 50% of children who are waiting on speech and language therapy. Is there a prioritisation in CDNTs where, when they are understaffed, they prioritise filling particular roles that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. MCallion. Would he say that it is fair, in terms of the conversation we have been having in this country about recruitment and retention, that where ratios are low or people are under particular pressure that it is actually a self-fulfilling prophesy? Staff will move out of work models that are simply understaffed or not working. We will double down on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Fairly quickly because I have two more issues that I wish to get to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is the HSE sitting down with families at the moment? Is there a model for forums to sit down with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Just to be clear, are there outcomes? When the HSE sits down with a family or a group of families and they say this is not working, what is the follow-up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does it move up the system in terms of resource allocation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there a formal model for that from the family forums? Can the HSE provide that to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to move on to access to echocardiograms. I am sure the witnesses are all aware of the Croí report put out in the last two weeks, which showed that 80% of public hospitals do not offer a direct line from a GP to an echocardiogram, so people have to wait for six to 12 months, if they are lucky, to be referred to a cardiologist in a public outpatient clinic. This obviously puts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, there is a pilot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Excuse me, who is that contracted to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Private hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE has the model but what is the timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I would love more detail. The work that Croí did is excellent because it had a lot of consultants collaborating with it on this. To be clear, there is an issue around the training of cardiac physiologists. I have very little time so I might add this to my third question, which is really for the Department. My third question is around the training of educational counselling psychology...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not mean to cut across Ms Kenna but I am out of time. I just want an answer on that particular issue. It is not about access to training and it is not the type of training; it is literally that the funding model follows clinical psychology and it does not follow educational or counselling psychology. Our model of care has now changed. Sláintecare changed everything but we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I ask the Department to go away and look at that. There is huge frustration among professionals around this. We need to have these people in schools and in all sorts of situations. We cannot continue to focus solely on clinical psychology.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome our witnesses. As Deputy Catherine Murphy mentioned, we are holding this session so we can do a deep dive into particular CHOs. I would like to direct my questions to the senior national management present and to the Department because we have done a little work on the CHOs across a number of committees. In the past decade, the HSE invested only €428,000 in upgrades to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: To be honest, I do not want to hear from the CHO. I want to hear from senior management whether they stand by the setting aside of clinical advice and the running into the ground of a building that could have been held onto?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry, and I do not wish to cut across Mr. Reid, but just to be clear, the reason the HSE is not giving people a time limit is because of the very hard work of some local representatives and the families. The HSE did give them a time limit originally, which was three months.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That decision sets aside all best practice in terms of our national policies and clinical advice. In July and August this year, after an intervention from the Information Commissioner, I eventually received a large volume of freedom of information, FOI, records which, by the way, I was told at first did not exist. Within the records we found evidence of two senior clinicians from different...