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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is anyone slowing that down? Is the IMO slowing it down?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: That is welcome. However, there are rural areas, not just urban areas, where there are gaps. Trying to fill these gaps will present a huge challenge. As we know, a percentage of GPs are over 55 years of age and will be retiring. Along with the health implications, this has huge financial implications because if an issue is not dealt with at primary care, it is being loaded onto the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Gloster, the 8% is pedestrian given the scale of the crisis we are facing in general practice.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, and the midlands as well. We have outlined the situation in the west. The increase in population has added further pressure. We have highlighted this in regard to management, governance and planning. It really is an area on which we need to go hell for leather to try to increase it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The committee will now resume in public session. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, briefly.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will go back to the home care supports in the context of the current situation and the question about the cost of the ones directly employed by the HSE. We know there is a figure reported in respect of the private ones and what has been asked for, and I do not want to get into that too much. There are figures put out there, but what about the HSE ones?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: What is the breakdown of that between voluntary-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: That is okay. I certainly do not want to impinge on that. The €28 per hour, all in, would compare very favourably, judging from previous replies and partial replies I have received to parliamentary questions and here in this forum to the effect that the ones directly employed by the HSE are cost-effective and directly under the control of the manager of the home help organiser. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: She was one of the first of them when it came into being, first,l doing it for nothing, and then there was a very small sum for it. I think a cheque used to come once a month, but it was a very small cheque for looking after two people. What can the home care workers do? It is very restrictive.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is overly restrictive. Compared with other countries, we seem to tie ourselves up in knots here as to what we allow people to do, and it has consequences. I know there have to be rules, particularly around handling vulnerable elderly people's finances, their shopping and so on, but it just seems that it is holding back that system. The system, I believe, could do an awful lot more, save...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Did Mr. Gloster say the HSE has 6,000 home care workers directly employed-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is that the reason, the shortage of staff, both private and directly employed, that the HSE had to limit that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is that done by the public health nurse?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I want to go through with Mr. Gloster the finances, planning and all of that. From the figures he has given, it is very cost effective and competitive to have home care workers. From talking to regional managers, I know there is a challenge with recruitment. They tell us there is a problem with recruitment. There was a round of recruitment that passed me by and that I never heard about....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have an ageing population. We all know the demographics. Could we look at having a national campaign to try to increase the numbers? I am told by some people in the HSE that it is the intention to try to increase the percentage of HSE carers directly employed. There are obvious reasons in terms of management and all of that and financially as well. The HSE would be doing okay with it....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Are there plans in place to increase that number? I see Ms Hoey from HR is looking at me. Are there plans in place to do that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Will that be actively pursued? One point I would make to Mr. Gloster is that we are not aware of everything. My attention has not been drawn to any campaign to try to employ people as home help or home care workers. I am not saying that has not happened. There have been recruitment campaigns, but I think the HSE needs to up the profile of it. Home care needs to be held up to workers as a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Does Ms Hoey want to comment briefly on that?