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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 346. To ask the Minister for Health if working premises have been secured for the proposed CervicalCheck tribunal; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2433/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the terms of reference for the independent statutory tribunal to deal with claims arising from the CervicalCheck controversy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2434/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if women who find their cervical smear tests were misread and have now been diagnosed with cancer can avail of the care package being provided to the 221 women whose smears were audited by CervicalCheck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2429/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for cervical smear test results; the number of women waiting for a repeat smear test following his commitment to provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2430/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the investment in bed capacity in the short, medium and long-term as outlined in the Sláintecare report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2458/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (22 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the civil registration Bill will be introduced; the timeline for its introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2809/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 129. To ask the Minister for Health the capital allocation for the construction of the new children’s hospital; the final outturn for same in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the breakdown for each of the satellite centres in each year; and the allocation for each in 2019, in tabular form. [3133/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank our guests for their time. The second most expensive hospital that has ever been built globally is the Royal Adelaide in Australia. It cost €1.4 billion, which is less than the children's hospital is going to cost. For that amount, the Australians are getting nearly twice as many beds. The most expensive hospital ever built anywhere in the world is the Karolinska University...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: This sounds like it is going to take some time. We have been over all of these figures. The figures Ms Conroy is about to quote are in euros per square metre. I am not asking her about that. I am asking whether the Irish people paying more than twice as much per bed as the two most expensive hospitals ever built represents a catastrophic failure of management.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is not difficult. I am looking all over the world and at the most money any country has ever spent on a hospital, and I am obliged to conclude that we are spending more than twice as much per bed as the most expensive hospitals ever built. Is that a catastrophic failure of management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Ms Conroy may be leading up to an answer. I ask for the answer first. Is the answer "Yes" or "No"? Does Ms Conroy believe it represents a catastrophic failure or management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Sullivan believe that paying twice as much per bed as the most expensive hospital ever built represents a catastrophic failure of management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: The new children's hospital will have 473 beds. How many beds do we have at present and which are being replaced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Broadly speaking, how many extra beds are we getting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Based on the current number of beds, the new children's hospital will have the same number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Before Ms Duffy says "however", is that correct about the same number of beds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: But the capacity regarding outpatients will be greater.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is the same number of beds but a better mix.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: A response was given to the Chairman on the governance of this which would be worthy of The Castleby Kafka. We have the children's hospital project and programme steering group, the children's hospital project and programme board, the national paediatric hospital development board, the children's hospital group, the HSE, the Department and Cabinet. Ultimately, who is in charge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Ms Conroy said all that.