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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: There are two sides to this. I would agree with Deputy Conway-Walsh's comments and indeed, those from the clinicians and the hospital that we need more beds and facilities. However, there is an awful lot more that they could be doing with what they already have. For example, the last time I met with the team not long ago, they said that they needed more diagnostic suites and theatres. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Strategies (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Matthews for the question. One of the locations in which the ophthalmic service is provided is in our own constituency in the Deputy's home town of Bray. I value the important role that community ophthalmologists play. I am fully committed to the development of the community service to facilitate the integrated provision of eye care in local communities. As the Deputy...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Strategies (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: It is a valuable service. I hope the Deputy got taken care of. Areas covered include acute treatments such as inflammatory or infectious eye conditions, chronic treatments such as cataracts, pre- and post-op care, age-related macular degeneration, surgical treatments such as corneal ulcer surgery and eyelid injuries. The treatment fees are set out in schedule 3 of SI 274 from 2013. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. The HSE provides routine eye examinations and glasses for people with medical cards under the community ophthalmic services scheme. The Deputy is talking about the medical card scheme rather than private provision.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Both. Okay, thank you. With regard to the medical card, the service is provided by optical practitioners who are contracted by the HSE. This allows people the freedom to choose a practice and time that is most suitable for them. Timely access to services is an important part of maintaining good optical health. While the schedules of private practices are beyond the remit of the HSE, the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: There are two things. The Deputy's numbers may be correct. The information I received from the Department is that about 20 graduate per year. One thing that will help is that it is proposed that the standard eye exam fee will increase for medical card holders. That will mean more money will come into the practices and they may be able to offer more attractive salaries. The issue is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I believe there is. The health and social care professional field is a diverse group of professionals in skills and training. As the Deputy said, we are not talking about a lot. We have 20 graduates a year and we probably need 40 a year, given the scale of what we are looking at. We are looking at nursing places moving from 2,000 to 4,000. The scale of the move from 20 to 40 should be...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Protected Disclosures (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 aims to protect people who raise concerns about wrongdoing in their workplaces. The Act provides for redress for employees who are dismissed or otherwise penalised for having reported possible wrongdoings in the workplace. In general, people who receive the protected disclosures or those who subsequently deal...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The €1.392 billion, Deputy, is a combination of more than that. If he looks at the main table-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: On Covid.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. O'Grady.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is a great deal of money and a lot of patient harm, and that is my biggest concern. Of course, we have to be cognisant of the money, but ultimately this money is simply reflecting harmed patients, and that is what we have to be ruthless in identifying and eliminating.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I am going to hazard, if we are to assume the sum is broadly €1,000 each - some people are getting a little bit less than that - roughly €126 million has been spent.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy those figures. We are getting weekly updates now from the HSE. I will send the committee a note afterwards, but a large volume of the private and section 39 organisations are now returning these forms. I have asked the HSE to turn this around into the payments very quickly, which I want and I understand it is doing so. I said to the HSE that anyone who has submitted...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Of course, and none of us want to be here. Can we just take a step back for a moment. First of all, let us acknowledge that these payments should have happened earlier this year and that, while 126,000 and more by the end of the week have been paid, there are still tens of thousands who have not been paid. Let us also reflect that one of the things I and the Government were determined on...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It will not be up to a year, to be clear. The decision was only made earlier this year and the vast majority of these payments should be made before Christmas, so that will still be within the same year.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes, I would have hoped it would have all happened in the first number of months, as do we all.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: That is €697 million, Deputy.
- 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: I thank the Deputy. My apologies if the Deputy was here because he may not have been.