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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Carter is saying that these targets have been set. Let us suppose they are not met. Mr. Carter appears to be saying that there are no consequences. I believe there are consequences. I believe those consequences amount to a reduction in service for public patients. I will go back to my original question. When those targets are not hit – Mr. Carter referred to them as stretch...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: The targets are new. Is that not the case? There has always been private income from people who have private health insurance who attend a public hospital. However, it is a question of the setting of targets. I am keen for my question to be answered by Mr. Carter in respect of how services to be cut will be selected.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: What are they if they are not patient-impacting? What gets cut?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: One need not be an accountant to figure it out. The HSE has set a target. I maintain the targets are new. There always has been provision for private income within the Estimates. That has always been the case. However, it has been in place as a recognised income stream. The targets are new.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: That is an outrageous statement to make.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a specific question about bed capacity. I would like to hear the views of witnesses, particularly of the CEOs, about whether the problem of bed capacity is due to a lack of staff. Are the beds physically available and waiting to be opened? We are aware that in Donegal there will be a downgrading of beds in Ramelton, Lifford and Stranorlar. As that is happening Mr. Carter has said...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: They could be quickly re-opened.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to return to my question on the downgrading of beds. The announcement was made by the then Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar. Will the beds be replaced?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Are there only ten beds closed in the entire Saolta group?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: If there are two patients in an accident and emergency department, with one private and one public, but there is only one bed left and a need to generate income, how is that decision made?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With regard to recruitment and contracts, are the limits on movement applicable under the Lansdowne Road agreement, which if memory serves me correctly is no more than 50 km in terms of a round-trip, being adhered to? For example, is it possible that a person recruited to work in Galway could be transferred to work in Letterkenny?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I presume that those limits will apply to all of the other groups, nationally, unless renegotiated?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I presume the board will be an administrative or shadow board until the necessary legislation is introduced.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: How is the chairperson selected?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I would like to clarify one particular point. Deputy Brassil referred to the morale of nurses working in the University of Limerick Hospital, many of whom I know because I represented them for many years. An article in the media dated 9 November refers to nurses going home in tears because of unmanageable workloads. I suggest that the nurses in the University of Limerick Hospital are not...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the delegates for coming. I have some general questions and some that are area-specific. I will start with the general questions. In the last session we discussed the income targets in the generation of private income for public hospitals. I ask the delegates to outline the contingency arrangements if they do not hit these targets. If they find themselves short, what services...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It has not been published. As I am sure she is writing it, Dr. O'Reilly has seen it. Will it include specific timeframes and targets? This and the other committee have discussed the national children's hospital. I have discussed it directly with Ms Hardiman. We all know that tri-location is best for children and mothers. When will a planning application be made for the location of the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Day said she looks at non-clinical areas, which is good and is progress because at least we know someone will be looking at something, but what does she mean by non-clinical areas? My experience of the health service is everything that could be cut was cut with regard to staying away from service delivery. All non-pay elements that could be cut were cut. I do not know where Ms Day would...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With respect, why would Ms Day not be getting them anyway?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: This strikes me as something that should be done anyway.