Results 461-480 of 561 for speaker:John Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I have not done that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I had not finished my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I suggested that people with disabilities might be thinking that Mr. Paul Reid is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's man in the Department of Health. Is Mr. Reid referring to the former Department when he mentions the funders of the health service having trust and confidence in the HSE and that this is a bedrock or foundation from which to progress? My issue is that we now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: As I understand it, the HSE does not have that funding at the moment. It has a deficit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: It does not include that figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The HSE is proceeding with an amount that is €16 million less than what is required to provide the services it provided last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I am talking about €16 million for the disability services programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is Ms O'Connor talking specifically about young people going into nursing homes or broadly about the disability services programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The State is paying for such persons to be in a nursing home. There is already a significant budget for them, although I will not say whether I consider it to be enough or comment on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is the Department or the HSE suggesting I am largely wrong when I say there will be a crisis in the funding of disability services this year? I refer to funding for people currently receiving services, not to mention those outside the door who are seeking them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The value for money review for the period 2009 to 2012, inclusive, was concluded seven years ago. We went through a recession when the scalpel and filleting knife were taken to everything. I am not against reviews, but while they are in progress, circumstances get worse for people. How much can be learned from a review, given what I have outlined? It could be marginal, although if it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: There is a lack of acknowledgment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: That is not my understanding of the reality. Disability organisations, including the Disability Federation which I know quite well, have been involved under the bonnet in the implementation programme. Ultimately, the HSE is the funder. Since 2013, it could have driven the questions the Department is asking. Again, I am hearing talk of insurance costs and procurement. I sat with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: There is work to be done by the two bodies. I did not suggest one side should lob issues to the other side and say the other side should resolve them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Yes, it is the organisations' primary job.
- Seanad: Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018: Second Stage (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: This is becoming repetitious but it still needs to be said. I thank Senator Paul Daly for bringing forward this legislation. The Title, which refers to a farm safety agency, is a critical element of the Bill. While there are businesses and workplaces - even family businesses - where perhaps somebody lives over the shop, with a farm, the person lives in the machine workshop. The person...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: I apologise for not being able to be here sooner. If I touch on something that was dealt with earlier, the witnesses may give me short shrift and need not go through it again. I have some generic questions. Can the witnesses name one or two critical issues, areas or services that are outside the health services and that have a significant impact on the people about whom they are concerned?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: It need not be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is it that they are not there or that people are not connecting with them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: If they were in the community, they could go to their GPs if they were minded. It is a different dynamic.