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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Feb 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government is committed to introducing the Sláintecare Consultant Contract to hospital consultants in our health service at the soonest available opportunity. The Sláintecare Contract is currently the subject of engagement with the representative bodies. As this talks process has not concluded, it would not be appropriate to make public details about them at this time, save to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Feb 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As set out in previous replies, responsibility for the implementation of Sláintecare projects is now devolved to a senior leadership team within my Department. All units within the Department are responsible for the implementation of Sláintecare while Individual members of the Department’s Management Board at Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary level are directly driving...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (24 Feb 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive. The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. However, I have asked the State Claims Agency to provide this, and I understand that it will be collated shortly. I will respond directly to the Deputy on receipt...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman and the other members. I very much welcome this opportunity to meet them to discuss the Revised Estimates for 2022 — Vote 38, Department of Health. I am delighted to be joined by my colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Butler. Budget 2021 saw an unprecedented allocation of over €4 billion in...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I echo Deputy Durkan's comments about our healthcare workers. They have been the very best of us all over the past two years. They have been extraordinary, but they are exhausted. Too much is being asked too often of our healthcare workers. I meet our healthcare workers all over the country. I met fantastic healthcare workers from Limerick just last week. They are all tired and need our...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Durkan. Regarding how people feel about their concerns, I cannot speak to whether they feel those concerns have been addressed. To my mind, however, the evidence never backed up those concerns. There were concerns about a lack of implementation, whereas, in fact, the evidence shows more implementation than in any previous year. Therefore, I have always disagreed with the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: No, it is all accounted for in this budget.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is made up of the core funding to the NTPF of €100 million. There is also a one-off allocation, which may become multiannual but for this year it is a one-off addition, to the NTPF of €50 million, which brings the total funding for that scheme to €150 million. An additional €200 million is being deployed across a range of measures, some of which may be...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The situation is not acceptable. As the Deputy quite rightly lays out, it is not acceptable for hospitals, for inpatients, for outpatients, for diagnostics, for adults and children or for community care. The €350 million was put into the budget for exactly this reason. Additional funding is not required at this point because a fund like this has never been created before, to the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will try to find that for the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: For 2021 and 2022-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: For 2021, I do not have the figure but over the two years, there was a total of about 12,500.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The total number recruited as permanent roles into the HSE was 6,149.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: We sometimes forget that, on top of that, several thousand were also hired in the vaccine roll-out and testing and tracing, so the total number was significantly higher than 6,149.