Results 16,941-16,960 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: This idea of introducing something because of savings being achieved somewhere else is nonsense.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: There could be the same savings anywhere in the health service, except where services were cut.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Does rent for the Department's current accommodation come out of the Department's budget, the Office of Public Works, OPW's, budget or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's budget?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: There is an issue about calculation of the floor space in Miesian Plaza, where the OPW has made a mistake. Is the Minister aware of that? Is the Minister aware of that? Apparently, the State is caught with having to pay €10 million extra. That works out at approximately €344,000 per year in additional rent, over and above what it should be paying, because a mistake was made...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: It was approximately three years ago. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Office of Public Works do not seem to be in any rush to compel the landlord to calculate the rent based on the actual floor space. That €3r4,000 per year is a lot of money-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: -----which could be put to much better use. I know the last contact with the landlord was in January.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Perhaps, the Minister will come back to us with a note on that, if he does not mind. I will come back to the issue of consultants' contracts. There are a number of questions around that and I am aware the Minister has spoken about some of them already. We cannot run the health service unless we have enough consultants. It is clear there is a major problem. Whether it is with consultants...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Regarding the Sláintecare contracts, the Minister said the commitment is 500.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Sláintecare contracts. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Sorry, new contracts. I thought the Minister's predecessor said that. I could be wrong. I do not know.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Is it the Minister's intention that the existing vacancies would be filled with Sláintecare contracts?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Sorry, including existing vacant posts.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: That is welcome because that is new, as far as I am concerned. I had not heard that before. My final question is on that pressing issue on the need to create those public health consultant posts. It is the only specialty where they are not consultants. This year, of all years, given everything the public health people have been doing, let us not have a strike. Is the Minister prepared...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister make them consultants?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister make them consultants?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: I know he is talking about the theory and so on. The Minister knows what they want and he knows what will solve this problem.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: That the 60 existing people are given the grade they deserve and for which they are qualified.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: It is in the Minister's hands to stop that. He knows exactly what they want.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Róisín Shortall: There will not be a strike if the Minister gives them the status they are asking for and deserve.