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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Can we-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Can we get a-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Sorry Deputy-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Deputy Durkan, we are considering the Estimates-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Can we get the Minister of State's response to the Deputy's comments?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Lads, please. We are very-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I ask the Minister of State to respond to some of those comments.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State. The overspend this year is €338 million, going on the figures provided, compared to €655 million last year. The Department of Health is getting closer to remaining within budget. Of course, we understand it is a demand-led service and an aging and growing population will place more demands on it. When the new CEO of the HSE took up office in...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: There are specific items in the Estimates. There is the treatment abroad scheme and the cross-border directive process, which are demand-led schemes. There is increased allocation for those, and the treatment abroad scheme is used because people cannot get treatment here in a timely manner so they go to another jurisdiction. It is an area that could be addressed with more efficient service...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: The Minister of State mentioned the €115 million overhang from 2018. Does he anticipate there will be an overhang going into 2020 from 2019?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Could it be €115 million?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Before I bring in Deputy Durkan again, I want to take up a point Deputy O'Connell made. I refer to the issue of recruitment embargoes or freezes or to the practice of only employing staff within available resources or budget allocations. It can be counter-intuitive that by limiting staff or freezing recruitment, money is saved. Of course money is saved in one budgetary silo but patients...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I will give one example and then I will move back to our members. We had evidence from a consultant a number of weeks ago to the effect that if the number of consultants in rheumatology, for instance, was increased from two to four or from one to two, the waiting list would dramatically drop for that service. I refer to that targeted recruitment, not just recruiting for recruitment's sake....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending this morning.
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (4 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2019: Vote 38 - Health.
- Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: The topic is "housing solutions". I have spoken about a housing solution in the House on a number of occasions, that is, a rural or regional relocation scheme whereby families in areas of high pressure are offered the opportunity to relocate to an area of lower pressure. In rural Ireland in particular, there are many towns and villages that have a large amount of vacant property which could...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Contracts (5 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason University of Limerick Hospital Group is employing agency nurses on a full 39-hour week while they are on a panel for full-time contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50842/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Noise Pollution (5 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: 311. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria in relation to noise pollution from windfarms. [50843/19]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: My question concerns the number of children in emergency accommodation. In October the number was 3,826 and now we approach Christmas 2019. I had proposed to put this question to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs but it was transferred this afternoon to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government for reply at a later date. It was to be a priority question. I am going...