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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That cannot be done overnight. We are repairing an aircraft in flight, as it were.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Was that recognised by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in terms of the funding of the health service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: In terms of some of the attitudes about overspending and the argument that spending is out of control and all that sort of stuff, what is the position on funding a fully integrated financial management system? What is the position on multiannual funding and what is the position on a digital health strategy? They are all things which would improve the data systems and efficiency. Why have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When will it be completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Maybe we should have started six years ago. Would Mr. Watt accept that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is modelled on every other European country, for clarity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. Watt for an update on funding of the carer’s guarantee for family carers to eliminate the postcode lottery that currently exists and take pressure off carers. What is the status of the funding of that guarantee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister referred to a guarantee for carers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No, it is for family carers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. Watt to check that and come back to me. I ask Mr. Gloster to talk us through the budgetary process. We know there will be a shortfall in funding this year, with underfunding of approximately €1.5 billion for 2023 if all the control measures are put in place. In the coming weeks, we will be dealing with the Supplementary Estimates. If there is a Supplementary Estimate of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That we know about already, yes. What is standard practice in that regard? Does the Supplementary Estimate figure go into the base?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Should know that in the next three weeks or thereabouts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there much negotiation between the Department of Health and Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on the handling of that or its categorisation, for example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: There is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I take it the Department of Health would argue for that figure to go into the base.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Such as?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: On the acutes, where there are difficulties in recruiting staff? What options are there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why then are so many agency staff being used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Gloster wish to comment on that?