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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: The problem is there is nothing wrong with what the Minister has said. All of those things must happen but we have been listening to similar explanations for years. The reality is things are getting worse and faster. We have gone from 13,000 to 106,000 people waiting more than a year and half for an appointment. That has happened in just three years. The Minister is correct as the one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the Minister aware that parents in County Wicklow are waiting three and a half years to access therapy for their children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I obviously do not intend to cast a slur on the Minister, but is he saying the leaflets he delivered were not printed, designed or delivered using public funds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Very well. I thank the Minister. I move to recruitment, an area in which there is a crisis. Throughout the country there is a crisis in the recruitment of consultants, while individual hospitals face crises in the recruitment of mental health professionals, therapists, nurses, midwives and many other grades. The Minister has written to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Has he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is. Does the Minister accept-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We have 12 minutes overall. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does the Minister accept that pay for new entrants is a major deterrent in recruitment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that there is more than one issue, but when does the Minister intend to move to reverse consultant pay inequality for new entrants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We might come back to that issue. Last year there was a focus on reversing the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, cuts for GPs, for which provision was made in the budget. Talks had to happen, but provision was made, which meant that the Minister, the Government, the Department and the HSE had space in which to begin to reverse the FEMPI cuts. Will such provision...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Is there a nursing embargo in place right now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Nurses have informed me that they have been told by Cavan and Sligo hospitals that a nursing embargo is in place and there are no jobs. Are they being misled by the hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: In the interest of time, the Minister has suggested that I was being pedantic earlier on. In real terms, is there a hiring embargo in Sligo and Cavan hospitals for nurses? Are they hiring or have they been instructed, for whatever reason, not to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Are Sligo and Cavan hiring nurses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not asking that. It was a straight question. We are pressed for time. Is Sligo hiring nurses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Mr. Reid is not answering the question and is just setting context. Are Cavan and Sligo hiring nurses at the moment? Yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not need which areas are recruiting. I need to know if Cavan or Sligo are hiring? Yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Are they allowed to hire at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Not if they have funding. Can they hire at the moment?