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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is fair to say, given the speed with which we have had to deal with huge numbers, that the people in the Department dealing with this have worked very hard at it. If someone had said to us a year and a half ago that we were going to have to deal with this situation and that we would have been able to accommodate this number of people, we would have said there would not have been a hope of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is a crisis situation. We will put these questions to the Department of Justice and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It says that it will not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay, so-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know. No. R1883 B is correspondence received from Mr. Michael Corban, Department of Health, dated 9 May 2023, providing information requested by the committee arising from our meetings on 2 and 9 February 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I flagged this because there are several issues in it that I wish to raise. There is detailed information in this regard concerning GP services and the shortage of GPs. My specific question concerned what the Department was doing in respect of taking on the option of directly employed GPs, as set out in the Sláintecare policy documents. An answer is given stating that a strategic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: A lot of money is already going into GP practices for those support staff. If we look at the General Medical Services, GMS, contracts-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Correct, but this provision has to be funded one way or the other-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----whether it is through private practice or salaried GPs. We specifically asked questions around recruitment and the pipeline of new GPs, which was an issue that has caused problems. Figures have been given for the number of training places to be increased. It is stated that the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, currently estimates that 890 GPs will graduate from GP training...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is no service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Specifically, though, I would like to see the breakdown for the DTSS. That does not exist and has not existed for some time. It is not possible - for a long time it has not been possible - to access the scheme because there is simply no dentist providing it. In that case, what is the HSE doing? What did it spend on it last year? What was the spend on? We might also ask what is being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It was refused.
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. The reality is we have 888,000 people on hospital waiting lists, record waiting times, record numbers of people leaving emergency departments without treatment. We got the figures this week on that. Figures released to Sinn Féin show that 497 people left Portlaoise emergency department between January and March 2023 without being...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputies Verona Murphy, Brady and O'Connor who are tied up with other business. I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege, and the practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses may make to other persons in their...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy for that. Ms McPhillips has five minutes for her opening statement. I invite her to proceed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: The lead speaker this morning for the committee is Deputy Dillon. The Deputy has 15 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy McAuliffe. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.