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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Health if private hospitals have been asked to vaccinate staff against the flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47987/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all the witnesses for attending this morning for what I have to say was one of the most comprehensive and well thought-through briefings I have heard. They have gone through the issues grade by grade and outlined the current position and the various effects of Government policy or the lack of progress. I thank them for that. After my questions, I will have to leave,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: May I ask about diagnostics specifically? I am one of those who keep saying we need to open the diagnostics suites for longer. One of the points I make is that in many of our hospitals, an MRI machine might be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. I had arguments with hospital managers over an elderly man who was strapped to a backboard and in urgent need of an MRI. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: What was the timeframe again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Ms Monahan said that at the end of the year, one could end up with fewer staff for the next year. How would that arise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: If a member of staff leaves, it takes at least a year to get a replacement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In the meantime presumably, some of our bright, young experienced radiographers will note the process involved, say they need a job in the next two months and if they are told the recruitment process will take between nine and 18 months, they will go somewhere else to take up a job

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: What happens when a staff member goes on maternity leave? If a radiographer goes on maternity leave for six or 12 months, is an agency person quickly brought in to cover that position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is a great point. We must look at that. For example, in several hospitals, the number of men, women and children on trolleys waiting for a bed is broadly equal to the number of delayed discharges in the same hospitals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Such matters never stay still but hospital by hospital, there could be 20 people on trolleys waiting for 20 beds, and 20 people in beds who have been discharged but cannot leave the hospital because they will not get two hours of home care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The committee keeps hearing about HR practices within the HSE, and not much is good. Staff have hidden pregnancies for fear of not getting promotions or of something happening to them, while junior doctors have had their training records falsified by hospitals because they work hours well in excess of European directives and are supposed to receive training. There have been burn outs in all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I am trying to answer a slightly different question. Are SIPTU's members treated well by their employer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge the work SIPTU's workers do. It is becoming harder and they are overwhelmed. They have been put in an impossible position. We all know they still go to work every single day, keep the lights on, treat the parents, run the machines and make sure that men, women and children are getting the best possible service the union's members can provide. It is becoming increasingly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Not for children.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: And no extra beds.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Which is costing €2 billion with no extra beds.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 38. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the three Dublin maternity hospitals to new sites; the planned dates for when the new hospitals will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49072/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government has promised to deliver three maternity hospitals in the greater Dublin area. Holles Street hospital is meant to move to the St. Vincent's site. The Coombe is meant to move to the St. James's Hospital site and the Rotunda is meant to move to the Connolly Hospital site. Could the Minister provide an update on the progress that has been made? When will the hospitals be up and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I asked for funding for the project briefs to be progressed this year, but next year is better than not at all. I want to go through my points one at a time. The Holles Street project is meant to have started by now. I understand that was the original plan. The Minister, fairly or unfairly, has been blamed for part of the delay by a chief justice at an Irish Hospital Consultants...