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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister's function likely to be watered down by virtue of the ability of anybody, under any heading, to raise issues in relation to costs and finance in the administration of any functions under the Act, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance payable out of moneys? In other words, the shortage of money is not going to become an issue, or is it?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Under this section, a new section 10E is being inserted to provide for limits on the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in regard to the exercise of powers under sections 10C and 10D. Would the Minister of State like to comment on this limitation and restriction on powers?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: If I am in receipt a complaint from a constituent to the effect that there is no comprehensive service in place to meet the needs of an individual, can I intervene and ask a Minister or Minister of State to ensure the provision of a service that should be provided under the Act or are we being conditioned to accepting the inevitable? In other words, nothing happens. Following on from Deputy...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive reply. It is to be hoped it will cover the issues I have in mind. One such issue, which the Minister of State anticipated in her response, is that of the person who has to visit a hospital and does not receive the treatment he or she requires, is not attended to and spends up to 20 hours or two days on a trolley and nothing happens. We...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I support that.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The corporate plan should anticipate Sláintecare in order that the two are not at cross purposes. That is my only comment there.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Where does this section sit in the context of directions? From whom will the directions come? Will they comes from the Minister in the context of the operation of the Bill, as amended?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, that is the question.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: That is the question I was going to put.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I wished to ask the same question Deputy Burke raised. In the event of there being a division of responsibility and viewpoint, who concedes and who is the arbiter?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: There is a situation at the moment and I just want to ask a question about whether it will it be addressed in the course of what we are doing. There is no maternity leave cover for speech and language therapists at present. Who decides whether that will be funded or not? Will it be funded under the model of Sláintecare or will it be funded under a multiplicity of models? In other...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I take the opportunity to echo the words of the Minister with regard to the Ukrainian issue. I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and their colleagues to the meeting. The Department of Health has faced many challenges in the past couple of years and in the past year, in particular. It has done well in very challenging circumstances, despite being a Department that received a...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Regarding the people who had concerns about the implementation of Sláintecare, and who subsequently resigned from the co-ordinating committee as a result of the lack of progress being made, have their fears been assuaged in the meantime? I refer to their fears having been assuaged to their satisfaction, as opposed, perhaps, to those of the Minister. Equally, do we have sufficient...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We wish the Minister well. I thank the Chair.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I do not mind.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is an important issue and I am glad to hear it is being resolved.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have a question relating to a sectoral plan outlining the programme of measures proposed for the provision of services to persons with specified disabilities. Will that tie in seamlessly with the Sláintecare plan?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: May I come in on that point?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We have touched on the most important part of the proposed legislation, which is consultation about the immediate needs of the people we are trying to help. Has anybody looked at, for example, the duplex housing system recently and how many people are in such accommodation and must access their homes via an outside stairs with only one handrail? There have been numerous cases of people...