Results 33,361-33,380 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The figure we are all aware of is €1.433 billion. That is the approved capital budget. The drawdown to date is about 80% of that, which is €1.148 billion. The capital allocation this year is €352 million and the drawdown of that to date is about 70% or €247 million.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I beg the Chair's pardon but I just want to say that the projected amount is nearly the full amount. The projection is €342 million of the €352 million will be drawn down this year.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: We will get that for the Deputy. He may wish to continue while the officials are getting it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: That is right.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes. It is nearly six times this year.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It will be over €500 million.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is. To the Deputy's first point, 126,000 staff have been paid.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I respectfully disagree with the language he used. We would all have preferred it to have been paid within the first week after the Government decision was made. The HSE has been dealing with a lot, in fairness. The other thing is the financial management systems are being improved, which goes back to the Chair's point about e-infrastructure. The HSE was nervous about this, and I think...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: There are many reasons. We need the data, the research and the cold hard information to say what exactly is driving all of these things in different ways. We also need a plan which we will be looking to put together to deal with this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: That is not true. It is false.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: What the Deputy is saying is not correct.
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 12, to delete “disclosure meeting” and substitute the following: “disclosure meeting; to provide for the mandatory open disclosure, by health services providers, of Part 5reviews carried out in accordance with this Act; to provide, in the interest of the common good, for certain restrictions on the use of the information...
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: That is no problem. I thank the Acting Chair. The overarching intention of the Bill, as colleagues will be aware, is to embed a culture of open disclosure in our health and social services. However, it is fair to say that many aspects of the Bill have been informed by the very serious learnings from what happened with CervicalCheck. This includes the need to ensure accountability by...
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Acting Chair for her indulgence. I will finish on this. In essence, we are saying that we will have best international practice - anonymised programmatic audits - so that our screening services can get better. Every patient who receives a cancer diagnosis must be offered a review that has been created to work for the patient. The Bill states that the results of that review...
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: She will be told, Deputy.
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: If she had wanted it to.
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: It is not.
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: My understanding is I have two minutes to respond. I acknowledge that is a constraint we have on Report Stage. Obviously, two minutes are not sufficient to address all the very reasonable issues raised. As I heard it, broadly, many different issues have been raised about many different parts of the Bill. I will confine my comments to Part 5, referenced in this amendment to the Bill, which...