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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: For what proportion do delayed discharges account?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is very interesting. The budget provided for approximately two fifths of the home help hours needed. That will help, obviously - any additional home help hours will help - but it will not clear that list.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I do not want to get in a row with Mr. Sullivan. He can say good progress has been made, and that was a great PowerPoint presentation, but in real life it does not appear that way to people. Ms Magahy said we might begin to see an appreciable difference next year, but the Sláintecare report is already two or three years old and there has not been any difference. In fact, the trolley...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am 100% with Mr. Sullivan. When they were closing hospital beds, I opposed it. I know there is a need for additional beds and additional capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr.Sullivan have a view on the de Buitléir report? We discussed it this morning. I refer specifically to the fact that the national children's hospital will have a private facility, and that the new maternity hospital has planned on having a private facility. Is there a little bit of a contradiction there in terms of Government policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Does Ms Magahy not think there is an inherent contradiction in the fact that we are sitting here talking about public medicine and the need to remove private healthcare from the public system while at the same time the Government-sponsored hospital is going to have a private facility in it? Ms Magahy is the head of the Sláintecare implementation office and I would have thought she would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I think it is critical as well. If Ms Magahy's view is to implement Government policy that is fine but I think there is an inherent contradiction in what the Government is saying. There is no purpose in us going down that road any further. Ms Magahy referred to a multi-annual commitment to recruiting staff into the community. I know it is the 1,000 therapy posts. Kids in my constituency...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is the exact question I am asking. What grade, group or category of workers are they going to be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: The HSE is hoping these 1,000 people are going to be in posts by the end of next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Do the witnesses know how many people were recruited from the beginning of this year until now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Currently, the staff are on their panels and they are just waiting on the position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. Sullivan have sight, obviously not of the names, but of the numbers on the panels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Could he get them for us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: These are therapy grades as well as public health nurses, presumably.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Does that include public health nurses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I would be very interested in hearing that because I am not convinced there is a cohort of public health nurses panelled and waiting to come in to work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: It would be helpful if Mr. Sullivan could share that with us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I know Mr. Sullivan does not have the figures with him. I am not trying to bounce him into saying something. I am just saying I will be making this face if there is a group of public health nurses panelled and ready to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Sullivan might talk to his colleagues in the acute sector because they have desperate trouble recruiting nurses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I would like to make one very quick observation. Reference has been made to citizen and staff engagement. That excludes people who may not technically be citizens but are working in the health service. Perhaps the language could be altered slightly. I acknowledge exclusion was not intended. Has that had an impact or do the witnesses believe the full breadth and diversity of people who...