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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Apologies have been received from Deputy Sherlock and Senator Clonan. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where they are not adhering to this constitutional requirement. Therefore, any member who attempts to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Mr. Gloster. We will move to questions from members. In line with our speaking rota, I will give nine minutes per member. For the information of the witnesses, we will take a break at around 11 a.m. for five minutes. I call Deputy Daly to start for Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Dr. Henry, we just have a minute left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Thank you. The next slot is mine and after that it will be Fianna Fáil. I would like to start with a letter that the committee received this morning from the Minister for Health in relation to CHI. As we all know, we have seen serious issues in CHI with scandal after scandal in terms of the unauthorised springs, the unnecessary hip surgeries, the abuse of the National Treatment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Does it have any impact on the ongoing reviews into CHI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: On the big picture reforms, we are well aware that the Sláintecare report was a landmark moment in health policy in the country, with a clear vision that everyone would have access to an affordable, universal, single-tier health system with patients treated promptly on the basis of need rather than ability to pay and that that would be delivered over a ten-year period. I am curious to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is the Department on track?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: One thing that would be great to return to would be the costings. One thing I noticed in the Sláintecare report was that there are clear costings around the cost of implementing it, whereas in the Sláintecare 2025+ plan there are no costings. I would like to see detailed updated costings on the full implementation of Sláintecare. I have asked for those and I have not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I would appreciate that. I thank Mr. Watt. On the public-only contract which he mentioned, I understand 66% of consultants are on the public-only contract. What steps are being taken to encourage more consultants to take up the contract? Will a ceiling be reached in the short to medium term in respect of contract conversions? What is the HSE’s best estimate on the full...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: When does Mr. Gloster think we will get to 100%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Okay. The audit this week in relation to pay was quite concerning. It found 99 consultants were earning more than €350,000 each, an increase of seven on the number in 2022. One consultant in a public hospital received a staggering €963,000 in payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will probably come back to that. Next is a Labour slot and Deputy Sherlock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses. We are out of time on that slot and we are due to take a break. We will suspend for five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are actually out of time on that. The next slot is a Fine Gael one and Deputy Roche is taking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Mr. Gloster. The next speaker is Senator Costello, followed by Senator Nicole Ryan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Fianna Fáil has the next slot with Deputy O'Sullivan. After that we will take a five-minute break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have approximately seven minutes left and we have three members who wish to contribute. Senator Boyle has been waiting a long time to come in. I suggest that we take Senator Boyle for five minutes and then we will take two minutes each from Deputies Cahill and Crowe. If the witnesses agree, we might get some of the answers in writing if we cannot get to them today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We thank Mr. Gloster and all the officials from the HSE and the Department of Health for their time this morning, and for the time that goes into preparing for these sessions. It is greatly appreciated.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: My question relates to tuberculosis, otherwise known as TB. Last year, TB rates increased by 30%, which is really concerning. In 2024, TB cases in children under 12 months equalled the number recorded in the previous decade combined. This year, TB cases are expected to hit 300, yet this growing health crisis has been largely ignored by the Government. The sharp end of this crisis is...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The genocide in Gaza is, without a doubt, the issue I am contacted most about by people from Cork. I am frustrated by the lack of action we have seen and that I have nothing of substance to say to the people who contact me. I cannot answer their questions as to why the Government has not passed the occupied territories Bill or why it is allegedly allowing the use of Shannon and Irish...