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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry, Chair. I thought it was a ten-minute slot, as in the Joint Committee on Health. I thought I had twice what I had.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The private wing has its own entrance. It sounds like it will be lovely, if one can afford to pay for it. One way or another, we will all be paying for it. We were given an assurance that somehow the money would be recouped. Is there a separate budget within the budget for the national children's hospital, the capital spend on that, for the private wing, so that we could be assured that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It has its own entrance.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My point was a very simple one, namely, that if the witnesses do not know how much we are spending on this, then they cannot be sure that we will recoup the cost of it from the private paying patients. If we do not know how much it is, we will never know if the money has been recouped. It is fairly simple mathematics.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay, I will come back in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I will ask a few questions. I will also keep an eye on the time, so I apologise for my previous contribution. We are here to discuss the budget. Members will know that what I am about to raise is one of my hobby-horses, so there will be no surprises. Even the Minister for Health has agreed with me that directly employed home help assistants and home help assistants who work for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: What are they?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I agree. The targets have been set. We see from the correspondence that the Department gets reports but the officials may not have them here today. Does the Department report on how those targets are being achieved?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Where can I get those reports?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Very well, I am asking. Mr. Mulvany can send them to me. Mr. Mulvany knows that home help is a cause very close to my heart. The directly employed not for profit organisations represent significantly better value for money yet an increasing amount goes into the corporate private sector where the hourly cost is higher.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: According to a response to a parliamentary question it is coming in higher. Let us say I am right and it is higher, would Mr. Mulvany not think it would make more sense to reorientate the service towards directly employed and not for profits and away from the most expensive forms? It is the same as agency staff. I understand that the Department does it when it has to but there is a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The balance is going out of kilter. It stretches credibility that at this stage there is no capital plan, yet we know that capital projects will proceed. In the absence of a plan, who is making those decisions and would Mr. Mulvany not accept that there is also a perception that a capital plan exists somewhere but it has not been published?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that but I was not here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: One final question, while I fully understand this is a budget meeting, where people are not offered permanent contracts where permanent jobs exist and where agency workers have been converted to directly employed staff do they break the ceiling? For example, if an agency worker costs €15 an hour and a directly employed person costs €10 an hour and two agency staff are converted...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is not a great incentive for management in that case to do that conversion, if they are short of personnel.

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I share the concerns expressed by Deputy Kelly. In addition, it does not make any sense to me that if an award was rejected, that would also have to go to the High Court. It seems unnecessary. This is supposed to be about access and making it easy and transparent. If I am misunderstanding it, the Minister might explain it and if not, obviously, we should be able to fix it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults attending speech and language therapy supports in County Donegal; and the locations in the county these supports are provided. [30266/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of feeding clinics across the State supporting persons with disabilities who have difficulties swallowing and are prone to choking due to their disability. [30267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 278. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide a substantive response to correspondence calling for an independent review into the circumstances leading to the death of a person (details supplied) in November 2016. [30268/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 279. To ask the Minister for Health when the results of the public consultation on geographical alignment of community healthcare organisations and hospital groups will be published. [30269/19]