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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Hourigan and Senator Hoey. The agenda is consideration of health services funding in 2024. The purpose of this meeting is for the joint committee to consider the adequacy of funding for health services in 2024 and the implications of the funding levels proposed for services and for the recruitment of personnel within the health service. The meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Gloster very much. To put the issues in focus, this is the correct time to discuss them. To what extent were those compiling the Estimates made aware of these issues? Were they made aware of the grievous situation with particular reference to the current year and 2024? I hope that is something that will emerge during the course of the meeting and the extent to which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Senator's time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We will try to keep the debate within the time limits. In the event that time runs out before an answer is provided, the next speaker should take up that point as their first question in order to streamline the debate. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Cullinane. Deputy Shortall is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy, let the answer come.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We have to stick to the time limits. We will come back to the Deputy again in the second round of questioning. We have all the time in the world. I call Deputy Lahart.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Gloster wants to come in as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Does Mr. Gloster wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: There are a couple of people who still want to come in. Ms Hoey wants to come in and I think Mr. Gloster wants to come in. We have gone through all the people we have here and have finished the first round. We will have a welcome break for ten minutes. If no one is here in ten minutes, or certainly in 15 minutes, the show could be over.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It will be ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We will go through the list again. In fairness, we want to go with the people who were here all morning and we will then move on to anybody else from the committee who may want to come in. I will first call Deputy Cullinane, who has to go elsewhere. Is that okay? This goes back to Roman times. Even Caesar had to go elsewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We must move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know but we have run out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry but we must have some sort of order. We are well out of time. That encourages everybody else to go over time, which would ensure we remain here until 10 o'clock tonight. We are not going to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That brings us to the end of the engagement. I just want to make a couple of quick comments. I do not necessarily want responses, but I would like the comments to be absorbed into the system. Perhaps we can get a response at a later stage. What was it the former US Secretary of Defense used to say? There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. He followed that around to infinity. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No. The Deputy has the added advantage of having been inside the system. As a former Minister of State, who worked in the system, she knows where there is potential but it is not as simple as she has made it out to be from time to time. Home help is an extremely difficult and demanding service because the people who expect the service are waiting on a daily basis and people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The next speaker is Senator Kyne.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (25 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to indicate the current and-or expected position in regard to an application for naturalisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46814/23]