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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What I am trying to get at is what needs to happen to change this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is Ireland out of line with most other western countries in terms of the career structure for hospital doctors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Given the fact that there are 837 vacancies, the jobs are there. The difficulty is getting people to apply for them, is it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What about the role of pay in all of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Sláintecare contract not offer that, in terms of a high level of pay and stability?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is it a factor that people are looking for a cap on the number of hours they want to work, in other words, a regular week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I will pick up on how the committee might pursue this. Senator Black's suggestion that we produce a report, and publish and go public with it, is a very good one. I endorse that completely. I will return to the question Deputy Gino Kenny raised regarding the absence of any tracking system. It seems ridiculous that we do not know where trained doctors are going. There are major issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I had a chance to look at the further documentation provided and its six recommendations, which are very worthwhile. It is almost a year to the day since the representatives met officials from the Department of Health on 25 March last year. With what level in the Department did they meet? Have they had any meetings with the Minister at all? Since that meeting, a year ago, has there been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Was it a Secretary General-level meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I think it is essential that our guests have a meeting at the highest level in the Department. We will do everything we can in that regard. In terms of solutions, how feasible is it to give a guarantee of a Sláintecare contract to people who are in training in order that they know there is a clear, secure and viable pathway to a career?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Dr. Humphries quoted a figure relating to non-trainee doctors, who would, in the main, I take it, be non-EU people. Did Dr. Humphries say there are 2,593 of those in the health service at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There are approximately 2,500 people without access to training programmes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Am I right in thinking those people do not have the option of a long-term career in the Irish health service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It seems like a chicken and egg situation at the moment. There are a vast number of vacancies and the aforementioned 837 vacancies does not include the promised 1,000 Sláintecare contract posts. There are an enormous number of vacancies and yet people cannot get jobs. The higher the number of vacancies, the less attractive the Irish health service is to work in because the workload is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank our guests for shining a light on an essential part of the health service and coming forward with real and practical solutions. We will do everything we can to pursue those recommendations with the Minister. I thank them again for their work.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I ask the Minister what he is going to do as the Minister with responsibility for energy. I refer to those actions he actually could take this week if he had the political will to do so. Electric Ireland has, as we know, joined Bord Gais and Energia in hiking its prices. Its 1.3 million customers will now pay 23% more for electricity and 25% more for gas. The standing charge is also going...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is an emergency situation. The Minister and Government need to do much more than just looking at things. Families cannot wait until the budget in October. The Minister asked for ideas. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Age Action, the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, and other agencies like that have many ideas about things the Government could do now to relieve...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Where are the interest-free loans?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is a waiting list.