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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Chairman asked several questions about Sláintecare. From memory, the Sláintecare report estimates that the requirement in year one will be around €600 million or €700 million. The requirement for activity specifically related to Sláintecare as opposed to things that were happening is about €20 million. Do the Minister and the Department broadly...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Does the Minister have costings attached to that revised sequencing?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Regardless of its sequencing, I am asking about the costs in the first three years because we need to make provision for them. I ask the Minister to provide the overall spend per year required to deliver Sláintecare in order that we can look at that, relative to what is outlined in the Sláintecare report.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Just today I was contacted by many people about the drug, Spinraza. Obviously many people were very disappointed at the decision not to proceed at the current price. Do the Estimates we are considering today make provision for Spinraza to be made available at some point this year?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will finish where I started. I thank the Minister for providing the email with the advice from CervicalCheck to the Department on the offer of free out-of-cycle tests. It makes for very interesting reading. It details many of the risks and predicts much of what happened. When the decision was made at Cabinet the following Tuesday, was this email made available to the Cabinet?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It was not available to the Minister.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: When was the Minister made aware of the national screening service's concerns?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Does that mean the departmental officials never told the Minister that people running the programme advised in the strongest possible terms that the offer of the free test could fundamentally undermine the system and lead to these delays?

Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: Second Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge the work that Deputy O'Connell has done in bringing this Bill to Second Stage. I remember bringing my own first Private Members' Bill to the House in 2011. It is a great honour for those of us who are not Ministers and are not used to bringing legislation forward, as the Minister of State here is, to be able to come into the national Parliament and introduce one's own...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of the extension of free general practitioner care for children up to 12 years of age. [17073/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the first phase of restoration of FEMPI for general practitioners; and the estimated full year cost of the restoration. [17075/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2020 of the second phase of restoration of FEMPI for general practitioners; and the estimated full year cost of the restoration. [17076/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of implementing the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in all acute hospital settings; the number of additional nursing staff, that is, whole-time equivalent that would be required for the implementation of the framework in all acute hospital settings; the number of additional healthcare assistants, that is,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that will be in receipt of free general practitioner care if it is extended as proposed in 2020; and the net increase in the number of children covered resulting from the proposed change. [17189/19]

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Aylward. It is good to get the detail but I find this exercise very frustrating. The outline of the deal was agreed about two weeks ago. The GPs have not seen it, the public have not seen it, and we have not seen it. We are being given pages of facts and figures now. We have not seen them before. I have asked the Department for them and I have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the opportunity of the recent sanctioning of a new primary school for Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, will be used to investigate the options for ensuring a one-site school for the existing primary school (details supplied). [17547/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the situation for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine obtaining work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17543/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a fast-track visa programme for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine will be considered to obtain work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17544/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the situation for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine obtaining work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17545/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 262. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a fast-track visa programme for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine will be considered to obtain work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17546/19]