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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Thank you. The next slot is mine and after that it will be Fianna Fáil. I would like to start with a letter that the committee received this morning from the Minister for Health in relation to CHI. As we all know, we have seen serious issues in CHI with scandal after scandal in terms of the unauthorised springs, the unnecessary hip surgeries, the abuse of the National Treatment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Does it have any impact on the ongoing reviews into CHI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: On the big picture reforms, we are well aware that the Sláintecare report was a landmark moment in health policy in the country, with a clear vision that everyone would have access to an affordable, universal, single-tier health system with patients treated promptly on the basis of need rather than ability to pay and that that would be delivered over a ten-year period. I am curious to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is the Department on track?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: One thing that would be great to return to would be the costings. One thing I noticed in the Sláintecare report was that there are clear costings around the cost of implementing it, whereas in the Sláintecare 2025+ plan there are no costings. I would like to see detailed updated costings on the full implementation of Sláintecare. I have asked for those and I have not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I would appreciate that. I thank Mr. Watt. On the public-only contract which he mentioned, I understand 66% of consultants are on the public-only contract. What steps are being taken to encourage more consultants to take up the contract? Will a ceiling be reached in the short to medium term in respect of contract conversions? What is the HSE’s best estimate on the full...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: When does Mr. Gloster think we will get to 100%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Okay. The audit this week in relation to pay was quite concerning. It found 99 consultants were earning more than €350,000 each, an increase of seven on the number in 2022. One consultant in a public hospital received a staggering €963,000 in payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will probably come back to that. Next is a Labour slot and Deputy Sherlock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses. We are out of time on that slot and we are due to take a break. We will suspend for five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are actually out of time on that. The next slot is a Fine Gael one and Deputy Roche is taking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Mr. Gloster. The next speaker is Senator Costello, followed by Senator Nicole Ryan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Fianna Fáil has the next slot with Deputy O'Sullivan. After that we will take a five-minute break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have approximately seven minutes left and we have three members who wish to contribute. Senator Boyle has been waiting a long time to come in. I suggest that we take Senator Boyle for five minutes and then we will take two minutes each from Deputies Cahill and Crowe. If the witnesses agree, we might get some of the answers in writing if we cannot get to them today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We thank Mr. Gloster and all the officials from the HSE and the Department of Health for their time this morning, and for the time that goes into preparing for these sessions. It is greatly appreciated.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance following the lifting of the €500,000 executive pay cap at Bank of Ireland, AIB, and PTSB, the current level of remuneration for CEOs at each institution; the planned level of remuneration for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 168. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 22 May 2025, the status of the long-awaited National Endometriosis Framework; the timeline being worked towards in reaching an agreement between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE; if she expects this framework to be published by the end of 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50611/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to introduce advanced practice posts for medical scientists; the work carried out to date to progress this role under the HSCP Advanced Practice Framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to establish a national biobank office and introduce primary biobanking legislation, as recommended by the Irish Health Research Forum in 2023; if so, the timeline she is working towards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national research ethics bill, approved by Government in 2019; to expand on the comment “work is ongoing”, as per the Autumn Legislative Programme; if her attention has been brought to the views of a representative organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50614/25]