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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand that was the Minister's view when evaluating the three options but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is true, but the Minister, the Department and the HSE also keep referring to a quantity surveyor's report which concludes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. We have not seen that report. We have asked for it but have not yet received it. The report concludes that, on the basis of cost per square metre, the costs are in line with what it costs to build a hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. The Minister's view is that the cost is pretty much in line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Okay.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be sharing time with Deputies Browne, Brassil, Butler and Cowen.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Patients in Ireland now wait longer to see doctors and to get treatment than patients in any other European country. Waiting times for CervicalCheck have jumped from two weeks to six months. Mental health services are in crisis and chronically underfunded. We have about half the number of consultants we need. The costs of the national children’s hospital have exploded threatening...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will ask a few questions. Deputies Rabbitte, McGuinness and Breathnach will then ask questions. We will ask all of the questions at the same time and then perhaps receive responses. Does the Minister accept that there is genuine pay inequality between new entrant nurses and new entrant allied health professionals? Does he accept that the issues surrounding the strike and this pay...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Is this how the Minister will use his time? Will he not answer the questions asked?

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: When we are in government, we will answer the questions asked.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: This is a statement. The Government had ten minutes in which to make a statement.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister was not listening.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Sinn Féin is the best friend Brexiteers have ever had.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children up to12 years of age in catchment areas (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the number of available primary school places in the area; the projected school places in each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive; if additional provision for school places will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6346/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 454. To ask the Minister for Health the funding received from the European Investment Bank for the construction of the new children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6767/19]

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, and potentially others if they arrive. I welcome the suspension of the industrial action following the recommendations of the Labour Court earlier this week. No nurse or midwife wanted to be out on strike. They wanted to be on the job doing what they know how to do best and what they are trained very well to do. However, a combination of issues, including pay discrepancies, staffing...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Fianna Fáil has tabled a countermotion to this effect, which I hope the House will support.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to go back and forth quickly enough with the Minister, if possible. We have been waiting for the past few weeks for the Mazars report, which was commissioned towards the end of last year to examine the reasons for the cost escalation and so forth, similar to what the PwC review will examine. We received the Mazars report approximately two hours ago and I want to focus my...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate the Minister's candour on that issue because, to date, we have had five committee meetings on this issue and, hour after hour, we were told the overrun could be explained away by inflation.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I again thank the Minister for his candour. This has very little to do with inflation. The Mazars report confirms that the gross area has not increased either. We know that no additional bedrooms, operating theatres and so forth were added and, therefore, the overrun is not due to a larger hospital. The Mazars report states that the vision and functionality for the hospital did not change...