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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Can Mr. Watt comment on the voluntary hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: They will not be independent of the RHAs because they are going to be part of them. If we are devolving more responsibility, they will have greater autonomy in some respects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: There has to be accountability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: We are looking at the what and the how and what happens once all of that is sorted. I welcome the fact that we are going to have a document in the new year, but we also have to work out who is legally responsible for what. I am not getting caught up in whether any of it should be underpinned by legislation or whatever. It will probably need to be, or there will need to be an amendment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Will Mr. Mulvany share his view on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: That is just putting them on par with other people in the room. They are going to be really important figures in our delivery of healthcare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: There will be the head of the HSE, and then these CEOs of the RHAs will be as important as the head of the HSE. In many respects they will be even more important in terms of delivery. Something we hope we will see in the document in January is that sense of their importance, and that they are directly accountable back to Oireachtas committees.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I apologise if these questions have been asked already as I had to be in the Dáil Chamber for a number of events. Mr. Watt or maybe Mr. Mulvany mentioned earlier the public-only contracts for consultants. We know that they are going to Cabinet today. I do not want to go into detail about salaries because that is not my objective at this point. Will the witnesses give us a flavour of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It is 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and then on weekends-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It is 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. How many hours per week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Mr.Watt spoke about off site. Outside of those 37 hours, does it allow for some off site?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Are issues around protected time, such as for research or training, part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: We were obviously hoping we could get consensus on this. My support is there because I want public-only contracts. It was always my view that we could be flexible on off site work so I am glad that has happened. However, if we want to get to a point where we have public-only hospitals providing public-only work, it is important these contracts are in place. I welcome that there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: What happens in the case they do not support it? We hope there will be a positive response from them. If there is not a positive response, what will the process then be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: That is fair. Once the contracts are in place, it would be the hope that those contracts would enable us to recruit more consultants, because that was one of the arguments that was made for a long time by those representative bodies. Maybe Mr. Mulvany will want to address that point. We have a lot of vacant positions and we know it can be difficult to recruit consultants. We know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: No, I think that is an adequate response. That is okay. I want to make one final point on the elective-only hospitals. Obviously, everything that has been said so far on those are sentiments I would agree with. We have had this tension for a long time between scheduled and unscheduled care. The first casualty of higher demand on unscheduled care is elective procedures. They get...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: If they ask.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Is it open disclosure if the women have to go and ask?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Two hours have been allocated for that debate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be provided in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60152/22]