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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: We are physically building that into the new children's hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I take Ms Hardiman's point that it is a policy decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a question about access to diagnostics. In the case of Temple Street hospital, for instance, a child who needs an MRI scan, in conjunction with a general anaesthetic, will be put on a 27-month waiting list. At more than two years, it is the longest wait time anywhere in the developed world. When the new hospital is operational and assuming there will still be these waiting lists,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand that, but let us assume there will be waiting lists in the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand the caveats, but I am asking a direct question. Will private patients have access to diagnostics through publicly purchased diagnostic machines such as MRI scanners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not sure people listening to this conversation will know what the answer to my question is based on what Ms Hardiman said. I am not saying she is trying to avoid answering it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It is a simple question and I ask Ms Hardiman to give a clear answer. We have publicly purchased MRI machines in hospitals. In many cases there is more than a two-year wait just for children to be given an appointment for a scan. Is it the case that parents will be able to pay for their children, as private patients, to access these machines more quickly than they would if their parents...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: There is no differentiation between patients in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the current system, a private patient gets to see a consultant much more quickly. In a situation where a public patient and a private patient see a clinician on the same day, are both sent for an MRI scan and found to have the same level of medical need, will there be any difference in time of access as between the public and the private patient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: They will go outside the hospital and then come back again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: They will not be using the public machines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Moving on to recruitment, there has been a great deal of talk that the urgent care facility at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown will operate for significantly fewer hours than we thought. I understand part of the reason for this is that there must be six whole-time equivalent urgent care paediatric consultants and t hat, between the jigs and the reels and the fact that we are dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a question about Holles Street hospital. One of the big sells in having a new national children's hospital was that there would be trilocation of paediatric, maternity and adult services, but there has been no movement on the relocation of Holles Street hospital. The planning and development phase has not started and we found out at the committee recently that there was no money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman. I meant to refer to the Coombe hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for interrupting, but I asked a different question from the one Ms Hardiman is answering. Her response is the same one we have been hearing every year for the past five years. We are told that people are meeting, that terribly important work is being done and that everyone is talking to each other, but we have been hearing that for years. My question is whether Ms Hardiman has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Self-evidently, however, Ms Conroy's final point is not true, because if it were, the planning and development phase would have started. The Department may say that for engineering or capital reasons or whatever, the two hospitals will not be built at the same time. I have no technical view on that. Nevertheless, that is not the current situation. We are in the middle of building the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I return to the conversation between Mr. Barry and the Chairman. Mr. Barry stated it is highly like that some of the additional overspends, or further estimations, in Deputy Durkan's words, will come to pass. Does he have a sense of the likely figure? Dr. Curtis is the clinical director for the project. Is there anything else that we in the Oireachtas should or could do to help her and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Barry have a sense of whether it will be in the tens or hundreds of millions of euro?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Tens of millions of euro.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It could be hundreds of millions of euro but we do not yet know.