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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will have to take a look.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will get back to the Deputy with a note.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I know we are out of time but could I ask the committee's permission-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chair.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is a concern I and the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler, Feighan and Rabbitte, share. What happened was that towards the end of 2020 we allocated almost €8 million specifically for assessments of need. To her credit, the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, took it on and drove around the country making sure the money was spent on assessments of need. A huge amount of work was...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Can I just answer-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Absolutely, but if I could just respond. There was a reduction of 95% in the backlog. This has to be acknowledged as very positive. However, the next point the Deputy quite rightly raised was that before the backlog was cleared, too many children were waiting too long for services. Now, more than 6,000 children have moved from assessment of need to waiting on services. What the Minister...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. There has been a lot of debate within the service around the assessment of need. The position two years ago was that every child, or the majority of children, went through a significant assessment of many hours. One of the results of this was that we had more than 6,500 children waiting for an assessment. The clinical advice we got was that many of those children did...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: No, to be clear-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: To be clear the initial assessment is an assessment. Children are assessed. Coming out of that, they are directed to services. However, those with more complex needs who require a more detailed assessment are referred for that. I am very open to taking a look at the gap between the initial assessment and those children who need a more rigorous assessment.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I am very open to looking at that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The officials will provide me with information on the capital budget allocation for the national children's hospital for this year. With regard to the total final price, as the Chairman will be aware, there is an ongoing relationship between the board and the contractor. The contractor has submitted more than 1,000 substantiated claims. The reported value of those is in excess of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Is the Chairman pointing specifically to legal fees with regard to the hospital?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: With regard to the hospital?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Therefore, that would be the State Claims Agency or legal fees. I will get the Chairman a note on that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Chairman a detailed note on that. Subhead A5 covers Department of Health ICT. I will revert to him with a detailed note on exactly to what that additional funding is being allocated.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Can the Chairman repeat that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman for the various questions he raised. Funding for the drug task forces under the national drugs strategy has increased by €1 million. I appreciate there is an accounting issue with what appears to be a €10 million reduction, which it to do with different subheads, but the total funding has increased. I share the Deputy’s concern. Deputy McAuliffe...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is difficult to overstate the level of exhaustion many of the staff have at the moment. Healthcare is a busy place at the best of times. There is a level of exhaustion now in the staff I am meeting that is beyond normal tiredness or normal busyness. It has been relentless for two years for the staff. Not only have they had to work under intense pressure, not only have they had to walk...