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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: They will go outside the hospital and then come back again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: They will not be using the public machines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Moving on to recruitment, there has been a great deal of talk that the urgent care facility at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown will operate for significantly fewer hours than we thought. I understand part of the reason for this is that there must be six whole-time equivalent urgent care paediatric consultants and t hat, between the jigs and the reels and the fact that we are dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a question about Holles Street hospital. One of the big sells in having a new national children's hospital was that there would be trilocation of paediatric, maternity and adult services, but there has been no movement on the relocation of Holles Street hospital. The planning and development phase has not started and we found out at the committee recently that there was no money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman. I meant to refer to the Coombe hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for interrupting, but I asked a different question from the one Ms Hardiman is answering. Her response is the same one we have been hearing every year for the past five years. We are told that people are meeting, that terribly important work is being done and that everyone is talking to each other, but we have been hearing that for years. My question is whether Ms Hardiman has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Self-evidently, however, Ms Conroy's final point is not true, because if it were, the planning and development phase would have started. The Department may say that for engineering or capital reasons or whatever, the two hospitals will not be built at the same time. I have no technical view on that. Nevertheless, that is not the current situation. We are in the middle of building the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I return to the conversation between Mr. Barry and the Chairman. Mr. Barry stated it is highly like that some of the additional overspends, or further estimations, in Deputy Durkan's words, will come to pass. Does he have a sense of the likely figure? Dr. Curtis is the clinical director for the project. Is there anything else that we in the Oireachtas should or could do to help her and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Barry have a sense of whether it will be in the tens or hundreds of millions of euro?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Tens of millions of euro.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It could be hundreds of millions of euro but we do not yet know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought we would finish on a nice question. What can we do to help?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Let us hope so.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (13 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to tackle an increase in sexually transmitted infections in Carlow IT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24625/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report (13 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process for changes to local election boundaries; the way in which local residents can input to such processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (18 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE capital plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (18 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each local health office area for each month to date in 2019, in tabular form; and the way it compares against the target for each month [25503/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of the agreement for healthcare support assistants to be paid for the time it takes them to travel to persons' homes; the estimated full year cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25504/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Review (18 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process by which a randomised review will be carried out of the claims of those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24875/19]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I move:That Dáil Éireann: recognises: - the need for Ireland’s maternity services to be as safe as possible for women and babies, including the need for women to be listened to and respected; - the hard work, skill and dedication of all staff across Ireland who provide maternity services; - the growing crisis in maternity care for reasons including:- outdated and...