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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Doyle. The reason I was asking her as opposed to the HSE was that I am not entirely sure we would get a full and frank answer from the HSE. Around particular pinch points, the Medical Council's data does some very useful gender analysis as to men and women leaving the system. It is interesting to note that there are quite significantly more female trainees. There are more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Dr. Doyle also talks about geography. Something like 43% or 46% of those leaving were from Dublin. I do not imagine 46% of the doctors in the country are registered in Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Clearly there are more leaving from Dublin than other areas. I am delighted to see Wicklow did not show up. Who would want to de-register in Wicklow? It did not show up in the data, the numbers were so small. Are there particular geographies? Why is Dublin being hit so badly along with maybe Galway, Cork and others? I do not think it is in the data but has the Medical Council of Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank our guests for their attendance. More than 1 million people in Ireland are waiting for care. Nothing like it has ever been seen here and nothing like it exists anywhere else in the developed world. More than 100,000 men, women and children have been waiting more for than a year and a half just to see a consultant. Children have been waiting for years for surgery, including some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to come back to the lack of movement. I have had the health brief for about a year and a half and some things were soon very obvious to me. They will be very obvious members of this committee who have been doing this for longer than I have. One of these things was the fact that the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation applying to GPs needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask why? Dr. O'Hanlon may not be able to answer. The figure we received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is €45 million. That does not take into account reduction in locum costs or real cash savings, so let us assume the figure is closer to €20 million over a full year. We do not know exactly. A full-year sum of €20 million is minuscule in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Colleran. My real concern is that yesterday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It is what I am trying to understand. Fianna Fáil's position is unambiguous. In government we would reverse this in full and immediately. We included it as one of the top priorities for the budget negotiations and although we saw movement on some matters, for the second year in the row we got no movement on this issue. I do not understand it and it makes no sense. It is not logical....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is a very nice start to the day.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when a winter plan for hospitals will be brought forward; the reason for the continued overcrowding in emergency departments during 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41485/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: How does the Chair want to do it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: We will all be aware of the severe overcrowding in our emergency departments. I am sure the Minister is aware of the case of a woman in her 80s who had to wait on a trolley in Limerick for four and a half days last week. Her daughter said that she was moved around and had to lie under a glove dispenser while people tried to get gloves. I think we can all agree that nobody wants to see so...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his response. I want to put something to bed. I keep hearing him saying that the failures in healthcare today, the likes of which this country has never seen and cannot be seen anywhere else in Europe, are somehow the result of some beds being taken out of the system 15 years ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The reality is that under the most recent Fianna Fáil Government, the number of beds increased by well over 1,000. There were a small number of years when a few beds came out. Does the Minister believe that this is causing the current failures? He and his colleagues have been in government for nine years. They have almost had a decade in power. In the Minister's term alone, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would like to get into the detail. We can go back and forth and make political points, and I am sure we will have plenty of time to do that, but the reality is that we are facing into a winter where a very serious flu is working its way across the world towards us. I heard the Minister this morning quite rightly encouraging people to get the flu...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have Question No. 14.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Hospitals Building Programme (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if a design team has been appointed for the relocation of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to the St. James’s site; if so, the progress made to date including the funding has been allocated in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41263/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Action Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the scheduled care access plan 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 54. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled nursing posts by hospital, including the hospitals currently precluded for any reasons from hiring nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41266/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 62. To ask the Minister for Health when he anticipates a full reversal of new entrant pay disparity for consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41265/19]