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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 74. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will have a new director general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28314/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the measures to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28315/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his attention was drawn to the use of private investigators to track hospital consultants pertaining to public and private work; if contracts were used to detail the surveillance required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28602/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the oversight measures, contractual obligations and regulations in place in cases in which his Department hires a private investigator to investigate health service staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28603/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a report on the agreed cost and safety recommendations on the N81 will be completed. [28505/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I will contribute at a later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman. I will not need 45 minutes, as the previous questioner took.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Kelly had 45 minutes and I ask him not to interrupt other speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: May the rest of us talk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I would like to go back to the basics and ask what the problem is because if one looks at our healthcare system from the outside, this should not be happening. We have young boys and girls waiting for operations for spina bifida. The average spinal curvature in cases involving scoliosis in Europe is 50 degrees, whereas in Ireland it takes so long to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is the statement I am challenging. That is what everybody assumes. They say that we do not have enough stuff so all of these poor people have to wait and suffer but if we spend more, have a younger population, need less and have the same amount already, explain to us what the capacity problem is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: No-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am asking the witness to explain it because his job is to reduce these waiting lists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is not the question I am asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am only asking one question because this is at the core of the whole problem. There is this view that we need more stuff. We need more acute beds, doctors, nurses and maybe we do and maybe we do not but the reality is that per age-adjusted population, we already have more of all of this stuff than countries who do not have our waiting lists so they clearly are doing something better than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I ask Mr. Woods to boil that down. We will have to agree to disagree about the data. This is the Department of Health's capacity review and it unambiguously shows that we do not have significantly fewer healthcare assets than others. It shows that we have more than some countries and less than others. Those are the facts. Given that we are younger and have approximately the same assets,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Woods.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (5 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses newly recruited to date in 2018 across all sectors of the health service; and the net increase in nursing numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29935/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (5 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists recruited to date in 2018; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in speech and language therapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Staff (5 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists newly recruited to date in 2018; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in occupational therapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29937/18]