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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: It is being done in line with the public spending code. Based on the outcome of the strategic assessment report, the business cases will be prepared. It is now November. The information I have suggests the hospitals will be ready by the end of the year, which is a small number of weeks away. When they are in place, we can carry out the project design, planning and procurement, and put the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the Deputy asking about medical cards for the over-70s or six- to eight-year-olds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: That has not yet started. As the Deputy and I discussed in the Chamber when we were debating the legislation, my view, and I believe it was also that of the Deputy at the time, was it was essential that it happened in view of the fact that Ireland is an outlier in terms of high costs for some primary care. Right now, however, the capacity is not within the general practice system,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is referring to the negotiations with the IMO on expanding access to medical cards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: No, they have not commenced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Will the Deputy outline specifically what documentation he seeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am more than happy to provide the committee with the documentation that falls within my remit, but correspondence with the Taoiseach at the time is a matter for the current Tánaiste.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: What is in my remit is the Department of Health, and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and the HSE, I will check. The committee may need to write to the HSE directly. I do not see it being a problem and I am more than happy to support the request. Between the NAGP and the Department of Health from the start of April to the end of May 2019-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, within that as well. Can I just check, is it specifically with regard to the GP contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Any correspondence, whatsoever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I can certainly ask the Department to prepare that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Very shortly. The first thing I wanted to do was to get sign-off on the report from the clinical advisory group. The next thing I wanted to do was to make sure that Mr. Wall was briefed on it. That was very important, because he fed into the report. I presume he is the campaigner to whom the Deputy referred. I had a very long and useful meeting with Mr. Wall last week, and I will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Which?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: The report or the policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: This is a conversation that needs to be informed by the report. It was important to me that Mr. John Wall saw the report first. He was briefed on the report last week. I am going to talk to him later today and I want to make sure that he has had time to read the full report. If that is the case, then I will immediately ask the Department to release the report. I want to have exactly the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I just, very briefly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: -----just very briefly, then. I agree, and I will say that we can get into the detail on another day, but I am looking at short-term and more comprehensive longer-term actions, as well, in response to the point the Deputy just made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: On the beds figure, the Deputy and I may just have to agree to disagree. The 1,100+ beds figure is one that relates to a commitment to have, by the end of next year, additional acute beds, over and above the fully-funded beds for this year.