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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: When major construction projects go over budget there is commonly something done called value engineering which examines the building, its shape, the way it is built and laid out, the services and all sorts of other issues, to find ways to drive down costs. It is done all over the world and regularly in Ireland and is typically very successful. Has such an exercise been done for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It sounds as if one value-for-money engineering exercise was completed and identified savings of €20 million which, in the context of construction costs of €1.433 billion, represents a saving of 1.4%. The national children's hospital is a big glass doughnut with a massive garden on the roof. As anyone who has ever built a wall or an extension or watched a Dermot Bannon...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The idea that we would not look at the design of the building when a cost overrun of this scale has happened is not acceptable. It certainly would not be acceptable to people who were spending their own money. The project costs have risen from €650 million to €1.4 billion. That is like getting a price of €250,000 to build a house and then two years later being told...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I am very familiar with it-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I asked if it was considered.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 60. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the new entrant pay disparity for consultant doctors; the status of the new contracts for hospital consultants; the number of meetings he has had on these topics with consultant representative groups (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12198/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 79. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the CervicalCheck delays; the number of women waiting for test results for more than four weeks; the length of time women are waiting; the projected commencement date for the HPV test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12196/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations to reverse FEMPI for general practitioners; if a schedule or timeline for full reversal has been agreed; if so, the timeline in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 87. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is operating within budget to date in 2019 including the current and capital expenditure budgets; if not, the areas in which the budget is overrunning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12195/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 194. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 9 October 2018, the reason there has been no attempt to arrange a meeting since July 2018 with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12459/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Training (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical graduates from medical schools here; the number of such graduates who commenced internships here; the number of those graduates who completed internships here in each of the years 2004 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12680/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the proposals in the 2019 HSE service plan to reconfigure the overall bed stock to a more sustainable level giving rise to a reduction in bed numbers of 80 to 100 beds; the sectors of the health service in which this reconfiguration is taking place; the locations of the beds to be withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Capacity Review (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the action which has been taken since the publication of the health service capacity review to increase the number of step down beds; the local health office areas that have had extra beds provided; the target for extra beds in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12688/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Barry for contacting the committee and appearing before us. He has picked up the baton half way through the race, and it is a fraught race indeed. I wish him and his team the very best of luck. Mr. Barry will be aware that there is serious public concern and widespread anger at the cost overruns from an initial declaration in 2016 of €650 million to a final Cabinet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Barry. Regarding eliminating or minimising further error, does he foresee any changes in personnel within the management structure? One of the things that struck me in the past two months is that in spite of the cost overruns, not a single person was fired and not a single person has had any HR sanction taken against him or her. We were also told that not a single contract was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a question for the HRB. What is the funding split between primary and applied research? I have spoken to some of our scientists whose view is that funding for primary research has been largely stripped out in, say, the past ten years. Several have described how they might have been working on particular molecules and undertaking basic research that could have led to all sorts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The reference was to within the research system. I would be astounded if it was true. When Professor Hennessy refers to the healthcare system in this regard, is he including doctors? The third recommendation is to build patient and public trust by improving the use of cancer data. I read through this and it sounds like the sort of thing a PhD student or a team of boffins could knock...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I know the Chair is trying to hurry us along. However, to make one point on that, Dr. Morrissey lives and breathes this stuff and understands it better than I ever will. A concern has been raised with me by numerous scientists independently of each other over the past few years. Dr. Morrissey's answer is frank; it is the most frank answer I have had and I thank him for it. The concern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In broad terms what is the average?