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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Why does Dr. Doyle think that is particularly a problem in Ireland as opposed to other countries? Other countries appear to have been able to modernise their HR and other systems. Why have we not been able to do that in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Doyle. The reason I was asking her as opposed to the HSE was that I am not entirely sure we would get a full and frank answer from the HSE. Around particular pinch points, the Medical Council's data does some very useful gender analysis as to men and women leaving the system. It is interesting to note that there are quite significantly more female trainees. There are more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Dr. Doyle also talks about geography. Something like 43% or 46% of those leaving were from Dublin. I do not imagine 46% of the doctors in the country are registered in Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Clearly there are more leaving from Dublin than other areas. I am delighted to see Wicklow did not show up. Who would want to de-register in Wicklow? It did not show up in the data, the numbers were so small. Are there particular geographies? Why is Dublin being hit so badly along with maybe Galway, Cork and others? I do not think it is in the data but has the Medical Council of Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank our guests for their attendance. More than 1 million people in Ireland are waiting for care. Nothing like it has ever been seen here and nothing like it exists anywhere else in the developed world. More than 100,000 men, women and children have been waiting more for than a year and a half just to see a consultant. Children have been waiting for years for surgery, including some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to come back to the lack of movement. I have had the health brief for about a year and a half and some things were soon very obvious to me. They will be very obvious members of this committee who have been doing this for longer than I have. One of these things was the fact that the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation applying to GPs needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask why? Dr. O'Hanlon may not be able to answer. The figure we received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is €45 million. That does not take into account reduction in locum costs or real cash savings, so let us assume the figure is closer to €20 million over a full year. We do not know exactly. A full-year sum of €20 million is minuscule in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Colleran. My real concern is that yesterday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It is what I am trying to understand. Fianna Fáil's position is unambiguous. In government we would reverse this in full and immediately. We included it as one of the top priorities for the budget negotiations and although we saw movement on some matters, for the second year in the row we got no movement on this issue. I do not understand it and it makes no sense. It is not logical....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a party (details supplied) will have the power of veto over the master plan compiled by his Department to provide a permanent home for the North Wicklow Educate Together secondary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40999/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 1 October 2019, if it will be ensured that a premises (details supplied) complies with all fire safety standards before being used to accommodate secondary school students. [41044/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can retroactively gain access to the CervicalCheck audit by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists despite previously turning down the option to be part of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40512/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 30 September 2019; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [40651/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 299. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to carry out research involving the Central Statistics Office in order to establish the unmet need of wheelchair users for personal assistance services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost for pay restoration for workers employed by section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if the annual national sepsis report will be published as a matter of urgency; if not, the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on each housing waiting list by local authority that are wheelchair users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41012/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the number and which of the 19 recommendations of the report of the Chief Medical Officer on vaginal mesh was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40471/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40347/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40348/19]