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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: I would like to mention the fact that Mr. Gloster came to Wexford and visited those facilities. This coming funding has been announced as granted this morning, and I refer in particular to the school leavers programme for Cumas New Ross, which should keep people out of the day service and move them on to a brighter future. To follow on from what my colleague said, the reason I asked Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Gloster knows how important section 39 organisations are. He knows the nature of what they do-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Not just their funding but equally the pressures around the care at home for somebody with a brain injury. The cost of having them in a facility is exponential in comparison but the truth is that if we supported the individual to stay at home it is half the price. We are, however, not getting that type of assistance. It is not forthcoming.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: I am conscious of the clock but I can come back in on it. I appreciate Mr. Gloster's point and that is where I am coming from. I live in the area in the county with greatest concentration of section 39 organisations. I understand the age group we are talking about and particularly the parents of those individual service users. Again it comes back to services. During the summer an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Can I just clarify that it is 20% and we are still at a deficit of €20 million from what it was back 12 years ago? It was €80 million and we are only at €60 million now. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: So it was increased by 20%, which means the deficit is less but we are still €20 million short of where it was ten years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: This is the same argument whereby barristers are on strike who are working off rates they were getting in 2009. Dentists cannot do it either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: It must be about engagement. It has to be engagement. There is a solution. I understand that the system needs to change. The HSE wants to bring in schoolchildren to it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: -----but there has to be negotiation and mediation. Mr. Gloster is the CEO, and he is a bit Drew Harris here for me. It is up to Mr. Gloster to get that engagement going. I will not make any disparaging comments about who is paid what but I lay this at Mr. Gloster's door. It is his job to get that engagement going. I do not know what the figures will be for next year but I do not want...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Sorry. There are no dentists operating the dental treatment scheme in Wexford.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: When did you last meet them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: We could probably go further than five minutes Chair. It is only 12 noon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: If we try eight minutes each.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: When did Mr. Walsh last meet in a proper stakeholder engagement with the dentists, the IDA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Who does?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Then it comes back to the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Will Mr. Walsh find that out or do we need to write-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Will Mr. Walsh come back to the committee with that information? That would be great.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Mulvany over the capital infrastructure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Verona Murphy: I am wondering about the 97-bed unit for Wexford that has been spun out of existence for ten years. Are we anywhere near getting the budget for it?