Results 37,061-37,080 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I was at an EU health minister's meeting earlier at which the new executive director of the European Medicines Agency, EMA, Ms Emer Cooke, who is Irish, gave an update. The EMA will authorise the vaccines. The exact timeline is as follows: on 1 October the EMA started rolling reviews of three of the vaccines, from AstraZenica, Pfizer and Moderna; yesterday, Pfizer and Moderna submitted...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Yes, it is. The Supplementary Estimates for which I seek the committee’s approval today include a substantial amount for PPE for this year. To give a sense of scale, the HSE normally spends €15 million on PPE annually; this year it will be close to €1 billion. The Supplementary Estimates contains almost €700 million just for PPE. They put in place very...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Anyone travelling should pay for the test themselves. I do not think that public money should be used for that; I would prefer to use that to hire doctors and nurses, pay for vaccines and so on. I think Ireland and Finland are the only orange zone countries in the EU. For anyone leaving Ireland for another member state, the rule states they must have had a negative PCR test within three...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I would be open to considering that. It is not something that has been considered. This issue has largely come up today as part of a good and well-worked campaign. I was asked about it early this morning for the first time and it is something I am happy to consider. As it happens, if it is €100 and we have approximately 30,000 nurses, that would be a cost of approximately €3...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Is this what is happening in Sligo?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I put it in the programme for Government.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I met with the optometrists before the programme for Government talks, they told me all about it and it seemed like a fantastic idea so I asked that it was included in the programme for Government. It is Sláintecare. It is joining up pathways of care and designing and wrapping the care around the patient. It is an excellent idea.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Not as of yet but we are committed to doing it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: This is one of the areas that is exciting and that we can make an awful lot of progress on in the coming years. When we launched the expert review on nursing homes, one of the leads, who is a consultant geriatrician, was comparing the percentage of people we have in nursing homes in Ireland with the percentage in Finland. Finland is probably seen as the best example. I cannot remember the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: And it would save money.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: Will the Deputy send those examples on to me, please?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: In response to the Deputy’s first question, I had this conversation with the public health team this morning. They made a few points. We are going through the European Medicines Agency, EMA, process. The UK has its own process. That authorisation comes with advisory notes. Our public health people are saying that Ireland is signed up to six people. They are at various stages with...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy a note on it. The Estimate before us today does not include any additional spending, so the allocation the Deputy is talking about is for the total budget. Today’s Estimate does not include any capital element. The Deputy is right. The site was empty for quite some time because of Covid. There was underspending. We have carried as much of it forward as we...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: There was no saving. It was delayed because in last year’s budget, bringing in those measures was contingent on savings that did not happen because of Covid. When I came into office, there was no money available to bring those measures in. Even though it was in last year’s budget, I had to go back to Government with a new memo and say that I wanted additional funding to bring...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I would not disagree with the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I would not disagree with that. That is what happened. There are no measures coming in next year which are contingent on savings.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I presume it comes out of the Department's budget. I will get the Deputy a note on it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: When was that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: It sure is.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020) Stephen Donnelly: I will certainly ask.