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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. It was said earlier that non-specialist consultants were being overseen, however I understand that they operate as fully-fledged consultants, and therefore while they might report into a clinical director their work has not been checked. In the review that the Minister is talking about, has anyone done a review of their caseload and their work to date to ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Representatives from the dentists' professional body were before the committee last week. One point they made, and they did not hold back, was that regardless of the pros and cons of the new oral health strategy, they were not consulted. Does the Minister accept their position on that? If so, why would an oral health strategy be launched that did not consult with either the dentists or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. We have been waiting for a Government or HSE-approved costing for Sláintecare for about two years. Sláintecare came up with its own fairly rough and ready figures to begin with. We disagree on whether the amount allocated to date is closer to €20 million or €200 million. We probably all agree that it is significantly below the Sláintecare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to ask one final question if I may. It should be quite quick. I refer to staffing of the national children's hospital satellite clinics. They are due to open this summer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is welcome. However, I am hearing directly from paediatric consultants who express very real concerns. We are in the middle of a recruitment and retention problem with consultants. We have about half the number that we need. We are about 40% below the average for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, countries. Children were marching in Cork today or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Is the Minister satisfied that staffing the satellites, which we accept needs to be done, will not put the existing service provision under pressure?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Where is the €4 billion?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Like the Taoiseach's approval rating.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: How are there 3,000 homeless children? That is not much economic growth.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (21 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement by local health area, in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [21422/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when the independent review group to examine the removal of private practice from public acute hospitals will report; and when the report will be published. [21512/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 132. To ask the Minister for Health his views of claims by an organisation (details supplied) that the funding being proposed for the new oral health policy is completely inadequate. [21328/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Expenditure (16 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 133. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of a reversal of FEMPI fee cuts for dentists. [21329/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Screening Programmes (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. This is certainly an issue on which we need to work together. I presume the Attorney General is providing advice on it. I acknowledge that such advice cannot be shared directly, but I ask that it be repackaged into a report and that the Minister endeavour to get it to the Oireachtas and the health committee as quickly as possible. It should include the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Screening Programmes (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for that commitment, which is very welcome. What is his advice for clinicians today? A significant number of nurses, midwives, doctors, radiographers, radiologists and others across the system will today carry out screening and diagnostic testing. We will await the legal advice, but is the Government's advice to them in the interim period to carry on as usual or is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Screening Programmes (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 10. To ask the Minister for Health the implications for the National Screening Service of the recent High Court judgment in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20743/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Screening Programmes (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Any conversation about the recent judgment in the case of Ruth Morrissey should start with an acknowledgement of the very brave stand she took. That is something we need to consider in the future when citizens seeking justice are faced with a wall of lawyers employed by the State. The State appears to use the law as a weapon in many of these cases. There is a great deal of concern about a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether Ireland has a severe shortage of hospital consultants; his further views on whether a major reason for same is new entrant pay disparity; his plans to rectify same; the number of consultants employed at post-2012 pay rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21143/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Minister and I are both aware, the waiting lists for public access to hospital consultants across the board are at the worst levels since records began. Does the Minister accept that one of the main reasons people have to wait so long is that we have a severe shortage of hospital consultants? Does he also accept that one of the core reasons for that is the significant discrepancy in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (15 May 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The concern is speed because we are facing a crisis. As some senior hospital consultants said to me just last week, the public hospital system is now on fire. It is great that we have, notionally, 3,100 consultants but there are approximately 400 unfilled positions, more than are 300 locums included in the number and there are at least 150 non-specialists acting in specialist roles. When...