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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service by the year they entered service; the number between pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances currently in service by the year they entered service; the number by pods and vehicles in terms of the date they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity, respectively by HSE region and subdivided by every 50,000 miles or 80,000 kilometres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred [40337/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each local health office, LHO, area. [40338/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home care package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and 12 months plus, respectively. [40339/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20, 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls, respectively in tabular form [40340/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40341/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40342/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Are we covered by privilege?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome the Minister, and I wish Ms Magahy the best of luck. She has taken on a Herculean task. Fianna Fáil has signed up to Sláintecare. It helped to write it and would like to see it implemented. Healthcare reform is difficult and complex and regularly fails in different jurisdictions around the world. One of the things it requires is credibility of leadership, and I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The short version is as follows. My concern is that Sláintecare will be tasked with solving problems such as waiting lists. We do not need Sláintecare to reduce waiting lists, promote the health of the population, drive accountability and performance or deliver a healthcare system that has the ability to plan and execute. We need Sláintecare for reconfiguration. Reducing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to return to the issue of waiting lists because I have been reflecting on the Minister’s response. Fundamentally, the current waiting lists have nothing to do with Sláintecare. They have grown beyond recognition to levels never seen before in the history of the Republic of Ireland. Does the Minister accept that solving the waiting lists is possible without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: On that issue, the question was slightly different. The Minister's response is that he is broadly in agreement with the Sláintecare/TCD figures of approximately €1.1 billion. The question was slightly different in that I asked if, notwithstanding any negotiations with the Minister for Finance this year - I appreciate where we are at in the budget cycle - taking a five to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it the Minister's understanding is that it should not affect the ability to invest in health care next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. The question that people in the HSE will ask, as they did when the Minister's predecessor, Senator Reilly, said he was going to get rid of the HSE, and as happened when Mr. Andrew Lansley said he would get rid of the primary care trusts, is, "Will I have a job?" Slimming down means fewer staff, which means some people will be on voluntary or compulsory redundancy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Ms Magahy have a sense of when she will be able to report on the projected workforce and physical asset needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for their very considered review. It is worrying. The witnesses have been forthright and have called out the areas about which they have worries. I am going to make one nakedly political point to which I do not expect them to respond, although it is relevant to implementation, and then I have four questions. The political point is that healthcare has been extremely...