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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 47: In page 58, line 3, to delete “subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4)” and substitute “subsection (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7)”.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 48: In page 58, line 10, to delete “subsection (6)” and substitute “subsection (9)”.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 50: In page 58, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “Review of operation of Act 52. (1) The Minister shall, not later than 2 years after the coming into operation of this section, carry out a review of the operation of this Act. (2) In carrying out a review under subsection (1), the Minister may consult with such persons as he or she considers...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 51: In page 59, lines 9 and 10, to delete “Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents” and substitute “Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure”.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 71: In page 67, to delete lines 20 to 29 and substitute the following: " " 'notifiable incident' has the meaning assigned to it by the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2022; "

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 72: In page 67, to delete lines 20 to 29 and substitute the following: " 11. By the insertion of the following section after section 15: "Open disclosure meeting generally to be held in person 15A. (1)An open disclosure meeting shall, subject to subsection (2), be held in person with the patient or relevant person (or both of them). "

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 73: In page 71, to delete lines 21 to 24 and substitute the following: " 36. Section 20A (inserted by section 82 of the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2022). By the insertion of the following section after section 20: "

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle showed some strong experience there. It was very impressive.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank colleagues and, along with them, I acknowledge we are here this evening with this Bill because of Vicky Phelan and others who made a brave and difficult stance, including Lorraine and many others. They did something difficult and important. This is about 115 pages; it is complex and important legislation. It expands HIQA’s remit into nursing homes and private hospitals...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Several meaningful pieces of work are going on, such that we can, in the first instance, reduce adverse events as much as possible. That is not just on a one-off basis, to which Deputy Shortall alluded, but it is so we have a culture, training and processes in place such that continuous learning and feedback happen to constantly identify and eliminate the causes of adverse events, while...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: It has been a long-standing principle that people receiving residential care would contribute to the cost through a charge or contribution, based on their means, if any. As we are aware, inpatient long-stay charges which were levied up to 2004 under regulations from 1954 and 1976 were deemed to not have a legal basis. A repayment scheme was established in 2006 and the scope of the scheme,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: We should all be slightly wary of the estimate. It seems that estimates associated with many of these issues were very high relative to the reality. For example, a €5 billion estimate was put on the repayment scheme and it ended up being less than 10% of that. It would seem that very high estimates were put against many of these issues over time. The issue at hand essentially is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department is looking at exactly those issues. As I said, it will come down to a case-by-case basis. The advice I have is that it would not be applied as broadly as the scheme for nursing homes which were broadly defined as inpatient services. The question really is in what individual institutions, and in what individual cases, were they deemed to be household charges rather than...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: To recognise their role during the pandemic, the Government announced that a recognition payment of €1,000 tax-free would be made to all eligible staff. I am very happy to inform the House that over 188,000 staff have been paid. This measure compares favourably internationally. For example, in Northern Ireland it is £500 versus €1,000 in the Republic. In the public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: It was a year ago and I was not satisfied with the pace of the process, which is why I intervened and for a move to a self-assessment model. However, while we all would have liked the payment to have gone out to everybody quicker than it did, I have no doubt that if the HSE had moved off its own bat, at a pace where there would have been significant errors made, there would have been double...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The advice I have from the HSE and the Department is that for the 22% of private sector organisations that have submitted their applications, those payments will be made in the next few weeks. It is inevitable that we will be discussing individuals here or there or a particular contracting company within a particular hospital where a payment has been delayed. These payments should not be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: This question goes to the heart of our priorities in healthcare. The goal is universal healthcare, which means affordable, accessible and high-quality care. A lot of good progress has been made in patient outcomes and clinical strategies being rolled out, including in women's healthcare, and there have been other positive initiatives. A lot of progress is being made on affordability as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not satisfied, nor are any of us, with either the number of people waiting on trolleys or the amount of time people are waiting. There are two parts to how we will solve this. First, we need extra capacity, including more emergency medicine, consultants, nurses, healthcare assistants, beds in hospitals, home care packages and preventative measures. A lot of work is going on there and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: We have some pretty clear ideas as to why not only Waterford Hospital, but also the hospitals in Portlaoise, Tullamore and others are doing better. Some of it comes down to rostering patterns, some of it to patient flow and advance triage in the emergency department, block booking of private beds and nursing home beds for discharge, strong leadership on patient flow through the hospitals and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: That is exactly what we are focusing on. It is incumbent on the Members of the Oireachtas to keep the focus on both. I fully accept the position of clinicians who say they need more capacity. They do. As the Deputy will be aware, we have added more community and hospital capacity than at any time since the foundation of the HSE and we will continue to do that. At the same time, we must...