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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will have to check that for the Chair.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is this in relation to?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask one of my officials for the Chair on that but it is very difficult because, for example, with sexual health, one of the key parts relates to the Rotunda where there is a major sexual health piece built into the funding of the hospital. The sexual assault treatment unit there is an excellent treatment facility in the Chair's constituency and does important work. It has been the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I might ask Mr. Tierney to answer that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will need one moment to check. As the Deputy has said, the agreement was reached on 10 March to fund the health, social care and homeless sector employees for a 9.25% increase equivalent to the public sector agreement and as the Deputy has said, they are backdated. The HSE is now preparing a process for providing funding to enable the increases. The Deputy knows the background to that. ...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am conscious we have that again tomorrow but I do not know the timing of it so I will check.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Let me check.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The increases are broken down; 2.25% on 1 October. I will provide this to the Deputy. It is easier rather than taking the Deputy's time reading it out but it is budgeted for.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fair enough. I will get a more detailed update for Deputy Sherlock before oral parliamentary questions tomorrow.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is St. Vincent's hospital. What I could not encourage more is really spending time on the productivity dashboard. People will be able to see the increase in investment, the activity per specialism per hospital and the take-up of various contracts. People will be able to look at the section 38 hospitals versus the HSE hospitals. There are many different ways of analysing productivity...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I think it is much too complex for me to simply give an answer. There is too much variation, and this is why it is worth sitting down and looking through the dashboard. Analysis of it prompts questions in each specialism. It is for the hospitals to answer some of these questions in particular.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and I do not want to conflate those ideas.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, it is not necessarily my view at all that it is wrongdoing. What we are speaking about in productivity is that if we have more consultants, I would expect that we have more outpatient appointments. We can check the number of outpatient appointments per consultant and the level of activity per specialism, and it will start to become visible, perhaps, that some specialisms are better...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The first thing I need is the analysis on a State basis of insourcing generally. I keep needing to separate insourcing and NTPF because they are linked but there is a measure of difference also. The issues of concern for me relate to both. The NTPF serves two purposes, as Deputy Sherlock knows. One is getting treatment abroad where it is appropriate and necessary. This may always be the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like a more detailed answer from one of the officials because I feel I have already answered this in the way that I can.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is also important to take a global perspective and recognise there are many nurses coming to Ireland at the expense of their home countries. I am thinking of the Philippines in particular, which trains 13,000 nurses a year, 10,000 of whom leave to go to different parts of the world. At the World Health Assembly, I sat with the Filipino minister to recognise that. We are doing a lot of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Which has not been converted.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, and there is progress on this. There is €80 million for conversion but this is partially offset by a €60 million increase in pay where there is conversion. The conversion process began in July 2024 after the pause. A total of 512 staff have been onboarded as part of the agency conversion process. This is 53% of the target. Of the 512, 268 are nurses and midwives, 142...