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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: By definition we are still running our healthcare system at unsafe staffing levels. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: There is a hiring moratorium in place which we are being told is not in place. We are running on unsafe staffing levels and those levels have not changed. Bits and pieces are being put in place but we are not hiring nurses and midwives-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: So we are going backwards in terms of staffing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We are going backwards on midwifery-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: In spite of all the promises, we are going backwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I spoke with a midwife in Wicklow recently. She loves her job and loves being a midwife. She has undertaken all sorts of extra study, training and education, including completing a master's degree in midwifery. She works in one of the Dublin hospitals. She said that her job has gotten so difficult, the cost of living has gone up so much, congestion has gotten so bad and the conditions in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: When Ms Ní Sheaghdha says a lack of autonomy, is she talking about the inability of nurse managers to do their job?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Why is that? Is it creeping centralisation? What has happened to cause that?
- Progressing Children's Disability Services: Statements (14 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: There is a young woman in Wicklow who has spina bifida and who is in a wheelchair. Her spine is curving as she grows, as a result of her condition. Her wheelchair cushion, therefore, needs to be adapted as her spine curves. I met her mum, who told me that she could not use her wheelchair anymore because her spine had curved to such a degree that she could not use the cushion. It causes...
- Progressing Children's Disability Services: Statements (14 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: The debate was due to come back around. It was not set at just ten minutes per grouping. If there were other Members indicating they had the right to speak for ten minutes.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Genetic Data (14 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons resident here that have availed of genetic testing in other EU states under the cross-border directive in each year since 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46957/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47133/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47134/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Data (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47135/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47136/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dietician Service Provision (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47137/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47138/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47139/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for initial speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47140/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for further speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47141/19]