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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When does Mr. Watt expect to start that work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is it likely to happen this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. Watt considering it at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I think it is important that it would.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When will the Department have it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It was announced by the then Minister in 2018, as a matter of interest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not saying what the Department does all the time. I am asking if Mr. Watt is going to restructure the Department to reflect the different, devolved approach that we are now seeing through the RHAs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Watt accept there is a need for restructuring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why was it not done ten years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We know the answer to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: One of the five pillars of Sláintecare relates to the question of removing cost as a barrier to access, and we have been talking about that in respect of a few different matters this morning. At the root of that is the fact there is no legal entitlement to healthcare, unlike an entitlement to, say, social protection. It was identified that we are unusual in this country in not having a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The slow, incremental increase in access, however, is not going to do it for us. The recommendation was that over the first five years of Sláintecare, we would move to free access. The whim of cutting a few bob here and there from each budget does not really do it. We need to start looking at what the legal entitlement to healthcare is for a resident of this country. I ask the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What is the thinking behind having two sites and splitting the provision rather having one that will cater for the demand that is there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Where did this idea come from? It is new today to hear consideration is being given to providing two elective hospitals in the Dublin area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has it come at a political level or has the Department come to the conclusion on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Department give us a background note on that? This is a new development it has announced today, and it would be good to know the thinking behind it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has consideration been given to purchasing an existing private facility for an elective hospital in Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We have talked about this on several occasions previously. It is what was done in Edinburgh, where buying a private clinic was deemed the quickest and most effective way of providing proper elective services. Has that not been considered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I asked whether consideration had been given to it.