Results 2,461-2,480 of 7,823 for speaker:Jim Daly
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I did not interrupt the Deputy and I ask that he extend me the same courtesy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: There has been an increase in the rate of recruitment to middle management positions since the recovery from the recession and resources have been made available by central government. During the very difficult years of the recession, the Government of the time did everything it could to continue the recruitment of front-line staff but there was a pause in recruitment to management...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I have heard that point on numerous occasions from front-line staff, as has any practising politician. I am trying to broaden how we view and narrate this issue. The political side of the issue regards how it is narrated in terms of the organisation being bloated and mangers being overpaid and so on. I accept that HSE management is overly bureaucratic but that is being driven by...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: On the HSE management issue, I do not state that it is the ideal system or the one I want to see. I am merely contributing another angle in the interests of the debate. Of course, I have no difficulty with people holding the HSE to account and questioning it, but we must be aware of the other sides of the issue. I want the accountability and transparency to continue. The HSE should not be...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: The first question the Deputy asked was why is the system not running and operating smoothly. I would be a fairly formidable individual if I was able to give the Deputy a succinct, articulate and coherent answer to that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I thank Deputy Durkan for the vote of confidence in posing the question and thinking I could do it justice. The Deputy asked whether the issue relates only to an increase in the size of the claims or is the number of claims increasing. I remember, as a backbench Deputy in the last Dáil, tabling parliamentary questions on the issue of the number of claims. I thought, from looking at...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: They are facts.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I cannot definitively say that those efficiencies will be brought about in the year ahead. I can definitively say there will be a relentless focus on bringing those efficiencies about. We have a very dysfunctional architecture underpinning our health system and the committee is aware of many of those issues. Integration is key to achieving a more cohesive and coherent health service...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. He asked about the children's hospital. As the capital plan has not been agreed yet for this year, I do not have the updated figure or whether there is a projected overrun on the cost of the children's hospital. I will get the information for the Deputy. The Deputy also asked about the complete split between public and private health care. That is the subject of the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I am not aware of that. Hospital groups were only established four years ago.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: My understanding is that the intention would be to better align the existing hospital groups with the ambitions of Sláintecare. That would be accommodated in whatever legislative changes would be made in order to better align the hospital groups. My understanding is that there is not a proposal to abandon the hospital groups or to disregard them but rather to better align them with the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: That might be to take account of the Sláintecare objectives of aligning the hospital groups better with the community healthcare organisations.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: On the background to the treatment abroad scheme, it is the result of an EU directive which said individual citizens of any member state could avail of healthcare in any other state within the EU. It is a question of awareness. They were not aware for a long time that they could travel to another EU state, not just Belfast. They could go to Spain in the morning to have their hips done and...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: The overall health Vote. It is the same as the acute hospital bill. It is added to that because it is done abroad. People are entitled to it under EU law and we have to do it. Deputy Murphy O'Mahony referred to misunderstandings about it, I think she meant politically, that it does not cost the State. The Government and the taxpayer are still paying for these procedures to be carried...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: The NTPF was €55 million last year. The budget for the cross-border scheme was €12 million and it was €14 million for the treatment abroad scheme.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: That would be interesting and helpful and we will certainly get that for the Chairman. There is a correlation between our predictably long waiting lists and where we have capacity. It will be interesting to see what we are delivering and where we are receiving moneys.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I presume we can get the standard cost. We can get an average. If, for example, there were 80 procedures and they cost €400,000, we can divide that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: Yes. It might be interesting for the committee to have that engagement with the NTPF and the HSE on that issue.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: I have undertaken to do so and will do so.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Jim Daly: They see the inefficiencies and would like to be part of the solution.