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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: And it would save money.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Will the Deputy send those examples on to me, please?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: In response to the Deputy’s first question, I had this conversation with the public health team this morning. They made a few points. We are going through the European Medicines Agency, EMA, process. The UK has its own process. That authorisation comes with advisory notes. Our public health people are saying that Ireland is signed up to six people. They are at various stages with...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy a note on it. The Estimate before us today does not include any additional spending, so the allocation the Deputy is talking about is for the total budget. Today’s Estimate does not include any capital element. The Deputy is right. The site was empty for quite some time because of Covid. There was underspending. We have carried as much of it forward as we...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: There was no saving. It was delayed because in last year’s budget, bringing in those measures was contingent on savings that did not happen because of Covid. When I came into office, there was no money available to bring those measures in. Even though it was in last year’s budget, I had to go back to Government with a new memo and say that I wanted additional funding to bring...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I would not disagree with the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I would not disagree with that. That is what happened. There are no measures coming in next year which are contingent on savings.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I presume it comes out of the Department's budget. I will get the Deputy a note on it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: When was that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: It sure is.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I will certainly ask.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: We have an ambitious hiring programme in place for nurses. I have stipulated that next year, the hiring will be done along the safe staffing levels that have been agreed. There is, therefore, now a new system in place, which was brought in for the pilots, where the acuity of the patients in each ward is basically put into a computer and it will tell what the staffing needs are. That is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Five hundred what?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: No. We want as many people as possible on the Sláintecare contracts. That is where we want to transition to.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: He may have. I do not know. I would not see any limit to it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Yes. All new contracts will be Sláintecare contracts. That is number one. Number two is that my view is that the current A contract-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Yes, absolutely.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I believe we should just be hiring into Sláintecare contracts. We want to move to public-only work in the public hospitals. This still all has to be worked out; this is my view. All new hires should be on the new Sláintecare contract. I imagine as soon as we have it in, everyone on an A contract will move across straight away because it is kind of the same but with more money...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: This was moving fast. Our public health consultants, doctors and public health specialists have been looking for this for decades for all sorts of reasons, for example, for professional recognition, professional standing and the money they earn, which is approximately €111,000 or €113,000 at the moment. Their consultant colleagues on A contracts are earning tens of thousands...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I understand the Deputy's question. Here is what I have done. We have funded the doubling of the public health workforce, not over five years but now.