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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Are we on course to maintain that reduction for a full year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Gloster believes right now we are at that 30% reduction for the last quarter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Gloster. I want to move on to the CDNT groups and staffing. We went through some of the levels of staffing the last time and I know how difficult the current situation is. Is there data within the organisation on the challenges with staffing, both those that are staffed by the HSE and those under section 38 and 39 organisations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am interested to know if there are lower rates of staffing among CDNT networks that are being serviced by section 38 and section 39 organisations, section 39 organisations in particular, or if there is a different rate. I do not want the average or the mean. It is interested to me whether there are different levels. If a person is in an area where the CDNT is serviced by a particular...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I do not mean to cut across the witness. Does that data exist and we just do not have it at our fingertips, or does it not exist?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Have any of the contracts that had been entered into with section 39 organisations been revised, reformed or changed due to the lack of ability to staff those networks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Where there is a disparity of whatever level, you would expect to see people voting with their feet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to something we have spoken about a lot at the committee, namely, the provision of long-term residential facilities for mental health, particularly in Cork. I acknowledge the seriousness with which the HSE listened to the communities and the concerns and needs of the service users and their families. The way ahead is certainly very encouraging for the community,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I know you did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is unlikely Mr. Gloster has projected costs at present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: The 18-bed intensive care mental health service in Carraig Mór more will cost €14 million so we could-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It will be slightly different. I think also there will be bungalows in St. Stephen's Hospital. We can see the concern in terms of service provision. A large number of residents of St. Stephen's were moved to community services in places such as Fermoy and Kanturk. Now we are building on the site of St. Stephen's. We could see how there is concern about whether we are really moving...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is fair. There is an undertaking in the programme for Government on the right to statutory home care.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Recently, I asked the Minister of State about it and she said legislation is being prepared on it. Has the Department done any outreach with the HSE? This would be a significant undertaking for the HSE if, all of a sudden, there was a statutory right. Has the HSE had communication or talks on this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Gloster.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the timeline for when Glasnevin MetroLink station will be open and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11955/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 242. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines seized by the Revenue Commissioners under section 43 of the Finance Act 1975 in each of the years 2020 to 2023, in tabular form. [12375/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of storing gaming machines seized by the Revenue Commissioners under section 43 of the Finance Act 1975 in 2023. [12376/24]