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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. We are all aware of the cancellation of elective procedures in the three children's hospitals at the moment and I will outline one of my concerns. The new children's hospital is not providing many more beds. The figure given to the committee before was that there would be an extra ten beds or something but that is very few. I have a real concern that when this beautiful new facility...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is welcome that there is protected operating theatre space. Are there also protected beds? In other hospitals, ward beds which are needed for post-op elective care are getting filled up due to an influx of patients into emergency departments and the increase in admissions. Many surgeries, including in children's hospitals, are being cancelled because there is no ward bed available for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We will do our very best. This is the first time that I have spoken with Mr. Gunning and these are not the questions I would like to ask him at his first time before the committee, so I apologise. I do not mean to question his suitability or skills at all and I hope that he does a phenomenal job. I did not realise until today that he had never built a hospital or any other building which,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: To be nitpicky, I do not mean involved because one can be involved as an electrician working on a hospital. Has anyone actually led the build of a major hospital before on Mr. Gunning's team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not mean to cast any aspersions. Mr. Gunning has not led such a project and that is fine. Has anyone on his team led the building of a hospital before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Has anyone had Mr. Gunning's role on another major hospital project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not trying to be rude. Has anyone who reports directly to Mr. Gunning led the building of a hospital before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Gunning know if any of them have ever led a hospital project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: They have led it, as in they have had Mr. Gunning's job or the equivalent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: A significant role in or led?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is a very simple question. I am not casting aspersions. Has anyone ever led a hospital build?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Gunning know if they have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Is it Mr. Gunning's understanding that they have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I hope many of them have. I thank Mr. Gunning. I would like to ask about private patients. The Minister replied to a parliamentary question yesterday when I asked about taking private patients out of public hospitals. He said that other countries with strong public hospital systems do not tolerate the inefficiencies and perverse incentives that arise from having a stream of private...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Or a political matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I will ask the last few questions, if I can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not want to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We have talked about the future design of the maternity hospital. Has anyone contacted the board about the design of the maternity hospital?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Page 57 of A Programme for a Partnership Government commits to implementing the national dementia strategy. The largest and best dementia care home in Ireland is St. Joseph's in Shankill. In spite of promises from the Minister, Deputy Harris, on the floor of this House that it would remain open, it is now weeks away from closure. The board announced that, as of last Friday, it will no...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It needs €50 million.