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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: Currently, 46.8% of the population holds private health insurance. This amounts to 2.48 million people and represents a total annual premium income of approximately €3.18 billion. Health insurance is provided according to four principles: open enrolment, lifetime cover, minimum benefit and community rating. The risk equalisation scheme is the mechanism designed to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As part of your question regarding palliative care and palliative beds are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly on these matters, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday 6thOctober. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: I will come in there, if the Deputy does not mind. That €3.2 billion is a huge spend, as the Deputy said. It is a huge proportion of our budget. We have 1.6 million people with medical cards and 185,000 discretionary cards, so 1.8 million people have medical cards. A huge proportion of those are older people who would depend very much on their medical card for drugs. That also...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: Can I clarify that? Is the Chair saying that when a person is going for a colonoscopy - obviously he or she has to have that preparation - that preparation is not covered by the medical card and they must pay €25 for it?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: We will certainly look into that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for the question and his interest. He is right that there are a lot of challenges with CAMHS, but a lot of good work is happening too. Out of all people hired by the HSE, there are 10,500 whole time equivalents working in mental health services. Regarding CAMHS specifically, 820 whole-time equivalents are working in CAMHS across 75 teams the length and breadth of the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: We have successfully managed to recruit consultant psychiatrists in other parts of the country. There have been challenges in the Kerry area for quite a while. We have two pieces of good news. For the first time in the history of the State, we have a youth mental health office. Mr. Donan Kelly is the lead and he took up his post on 1 September. I met him last week. In addition, for...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: For clarification, the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is now in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: They got my name wrong.