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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will open admissions as a matter of urgency to a new secondary school opening in September 2020 for pupils in the Greystones and Kilcoole area of County Wicklow in view of the huge demand for places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48633/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (26 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 263. To ask the Minister for Health if the NTPF report on private healthcare in public hospitals will be made available. [48554/19]

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: So passionate are my colleagues that they forgot to leave time for a wrap up. That is a reflection of how seriously we take this issue. I will speak briefly. I will not waste too much time talking about Sinn Féin's nonsense. Its contributions spent more time talking about Fianna Fáil than they did about the patients waiting on trolleys. Deputy Ó Caoláin said that...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will take no lectures from Sinn Féin on action from political parties. I will address the remarks of the Minister, Deputy Harris. Unfortunately, he has left the Chamber, but he said that Fianna Fáil's plan is very familiar. That is good because it means that he understands what needs to be done. However, I found his speech very familiar. It contained no apology to the 100,000...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: There was no acknowledgement of his Government's failures, yet he was somehow trying to blame Fianna Fáil and Deputy Micheál Martin. One might as well talk about Deputy Michael Noonan as health Minister or Erskine Childers. I will make one final point if I may, and I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's indulgence. Many speakers from the Opposition were saying, "Arrah, Fianna...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Thirty seconds please, a Cheann Comhairle. As I listened, I went back and looked at the trolley figures. In 2005, it was 230; 2006 it was 198; 2007 it was 250-----

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In 2007 it was 250. Then it went into the 300s and 400s, and today it is 577. We must never conclude that the way patients are being failed is inevitable - it is not - and that it has always been thus.

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It has not. If the Government withdraws its amendment, votes for the motion and implements Fianna Fáil's plans, those patients will be off the trolleys.

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes: — that so far this year, more than 100,000 patients have gone without a hospital bed, waiting on trolleys in emergency departments; — that to the end of October this year, 13,466 people over 75 years of age have endured emergency department waits of more than 24-hours, a third more than for the same period in 2018;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the infection control measures in place in nursing and residential homes to prevent and tackle flu outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47985/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE monitors the number of nursing home patients, public and private, that have been vaccinated against flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47986/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Health if private hospitals have been asked to vaccinate staff against the flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47987/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all the witnesses for attending this morning for what I have to say was one of the most comprehensive and well thought-through briefings I have heard. They have gone through the issues grade by grade and outlined the current position and the various effects of Government policy or the lack of progress. I thank them for that. After my questions, I will have to leave,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: May I ask about diagnostics specifically? I am one of those who keep saying we need to open the diagnostics suites for longer. One of the points I make is that in many of our hospitals, an MRI machine might be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. I had arguments with hospital managers over an elderly man who was strapped to a backboard and in urgent need of an MRI. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: What was the timeframe again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Ms Monahan said that at the end of the year, one could end up with fewer staff for the next year. How would that arise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: If a member of staff leaves, it takes at least a year to get a replacement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In the meantime presumably, some of our bright, young experienced radiographers will note the process involved, say they need a job in the next two months and if they are told the recruitment process will take between nine and 18 months, they will go somewhere else to take up a job

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: What happens when a staff member goes on maternity leave? If a radiographer goes on maternity leave for six or 12 months, is an agency person quickly brought in to cover that position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is a great point. We must look at that. For example, in several hospitals, the number of men, women and children on trolleys waiting for a bed is broadly equal to the number of delayed discharges in the same hospitals.