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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) states that many funded nursing vacancies arising from staff retiring, leaving or going on maternity leave are remaining unfilled due to the recruitment freeze and that this happening when there is unprecedented demand on our health services, meaning that various departments and community services are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I will be happy to get the Minister's answer on this question so I will skip my 30-second introduction.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I want to make sure I am addressing the correct question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I am taking his question as well, just to make things more complicated.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The number of nurses in our health service has been increasing dramatically in the lifetime of this Government. Since January 2020, right across the health service we have increased the number by almost 29,000 whole-time equivalents. It really has been a huge increase. Deputy Murphy asked specifically about nurses and midwifery. In the lifetime of this Government, the nursing and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. In nine hospitals, car parking is free. We have a bunch which charge up to €10 and then we have those three hospitals to which I referred. The latter will, understandably, tell us that this is all well and good but they need money to make it up. It is reasonable for them to state that there would be a funding shortfall in the context of the provision of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Duncan Smith: Okay.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Tá muid ag dul ar ais go dtí Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently published the Irish national ICU audit annual report showing that an average 5.6 critical-care beds per 100,000 population were open in 2022, which is less than half the mean value of 12 for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, countries; and if he will make a statement...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My question relates to the Irish national ICU audit. There was a recent audit on intensive care beds in the State. It pointed out a number of an anomalies and, obviously, deficiencies. There were also positive things in that report on our healthcare system. I wish to hear the Minister’s views on the report.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thought it was a very useful report. I have a lot of numbers here as I got into a lot of the numbers comparing our baseline with the OECD figures in preparation for this morning. The situation is better than the OECD comparison suggests. I will explain why. There is no question that we have had a shortage of intensive care beds. We know they are needed for very sick patients and for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I acknowledge there has been significant progress in intensive care beds since Covid-19, which exposed crack lines in medical need. Obviously, there is more demand in our public healthcare system because of population growth and so forth. Obviously, not having ICU beds creates a knock-on effect and a trickle-down effect. If there is full capacity at ICU level, that will have a knock-on...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I have been looking at the ratios. The OECD average is 12 beds per 100,000. When neonatal units, paediatric beds and level 1 beds are included, we get to approximately 11 beds per 100,000. It actually goes way up. For whatever reason, however, we do not count all of them in our OECD submission. We are going on the baseline, that is, the 2018 baseline set out in the report which examined...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I accept that. I said from the outset that there has been progress in respect of ICU beds. The report referred to the issue across our health system in retaining staff who are trained here and who may emigrate and so forth. There are mitigating circumstances in this regard such as the work-life balance and staff getting accommodation in built-up areas like Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish it were simple.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: While this is an issue, it is not an issue in all of our hospitals. In the context of some hospitals, the cost of living in the local area is much lower and rents and house prices are much more affordable. However, as Deputy Kenny has said, in some parts of the country, it really is an issue for someone on, say, an ICU staff salary, whether that is an ICU nurse or ICU healthcare assistant....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)
Hospital Overcrowding