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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the additional home support hours required by 2031 (details supplied). [42269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 469. To ask the Minister for Health when a new director general and-or chief executive officer of the HSE will be appointed. [42316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of expanding access to free general practitioner care through a 10% increase in the weekly income thresholds for general practitioner visit cards; and the full year cost of same. [42319/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reversing the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, reductions to general practitioner fees announced in July 2013. [42471/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 499. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of paying all new entrant consultants recruited since 2012 at the pre-2012 rate of salary. [42472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 500. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42473/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 501. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42474/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42475/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dietician Service Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 503. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42476/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Data (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42477/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (16 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42478/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The witnesses are very welcome and I thank them both for their time. I want to get their views on the delay in access. Ms Kirkpatrick said parents were negotiating a labyrinth to try to even get access to speech and language therapists for their children. How long is it taking to get an assessment? Once parents decide there may be an issue with their little boy or girl that needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Geographically, which areas are doing well and which are doing poorly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Could Ms Kenny say that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: These are significant variations, with children waiting between six months and three years depending on where they live. Will the witnesses give us a sense of the missed opportunity caused by this variation of two and half years between those waiting for six months and those waiting for up to three years? Will they describe the missed opportunity for the children who must wait an additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Ms Kirkpatrick know what is causing these large geographical variations around the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: There is a relatively simple view that if children have to wait for two and half or three years in Kerry and Cork for speech and language therapy, we must hire ten therapists now and when they are hired, we must be nice to them so that they do not leave. If they need to go on maternity leave, their absence should be covered. For the love of Jesus, if we know that children are waiting for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Ms Kirkpatrick represents the therapists. I have asked the HSE and it has given me very convoluted answers, amounting to no more than the fact that life is terribly complicated. Sometimes, however, it is not terribly complicated in that we just need to hire people and be nice to them. I am asking Ms Kirkpatrick, as the representative of therapists, why it is proving so hard to hire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: If I may, I will go back over this again. There is an urgent need to hire speech and language therapists everywhere, but particularly in certain parts of the country like Cork and Kerry. Is it that the HSE is not trying to hire therapists or that it is not willing to pay them enough? Is it that the HSE in certain areas has a bad reputation as an employer and word has got out among...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is frustrating because, on the face of it, it is such an easy problem to solve. We have 1,700 children who need help so we need to hire the people who can help them. We seem to be able to manage it in other parts of the country. I thank the witnesses for their responses. I have one last question on latent private sector capacity. Fianna Fáil wants a public healthcare system...