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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, that is why an expert group was set up under Mr. Justice Meenan. Its recommendations are two years old. Does the Minister have a timescale for implementing them?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: When does the Minister expect to have that timescale?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: In addition to the cost for the taxpayer, this is not a proper way of dealing with adverse incidents. There are better ways of doing that and the difficulty is that this is something of a bonanza for the legal profession. Furthermore, it is not treating families properly and people are being left, for years on end, waiting for proper recognition of the adverse incident.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: The Minister is again describing the problem.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: The problems have existed for many years and there seems to be a lack of action on them.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: Sorry, apart from doctors.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: The Estimates show 8,500 posts were not filled and the savings so I wonder how serious people were about recruiting.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: That is cold comfort to people who are on waiting lists for various community services or hospital services for years, and especially children. The waiting lists are just scandalous. For the last six months I have raised the issue of workforce planning and I have seen no evidence of any serious workforce planning going on either in the Department or in the HSE. We were promised reports...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: My last question is on the allocations made for Covid. With only three weeks remaining in this year I appeal to the Minister to personally intervene in the issue of the proposed closure of the only existing long Covid clinic that has dealt with 1,500 patients, which is a vast number, in the Mater hospital. In 2021, a business case for the clinic was submitted to the HSE but there was no...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: It does not look like a clinical decision. The research on which the HSE has based its plan for the six clinics is very old research from the end of 2020, which is before there was an understanding or an appreciation of the neurological impacts. It is old research and the most up to date research in this country was done in the Mater. The decision to close seems to have been done on the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: Okay. Costs are mounting, as we know from these Estimates-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: The Minister is aware of the problems.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Róisín Shortall: Under the HSE’s core operations, savings, as they are called, of €500 million in pay costs have been made. This is in the context of very many health services simply not functioning properly and some of them not functioning at all, because of the lack of staff or of any workforce plan of any significance, along with all the other issues relating to housing, culture within the...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I was waiting for a Minister from the Department of Health to come in.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is anybody from the Department of Health available today?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is a senior Minister and three Ministers of State, and not one of them is available.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is really not acceptable. What we are doing has to be done every year. It has been on the schedule since last week. It is not on that no one from the Department of Health is here today.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a point in going ahead with this?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am not sure there is. I cannot understand what the point would be if there is nobody from the Department of Health present.