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National Children's Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “notes: — the cost escalation in the construction of the National Children’s Hospital, from €650 million in 2016 to €1.433 billion in November 2018; — the additional €300 million in commissioning, Information and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (27 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure plan linked to the Sláintecare action plan; the costs by year dedicated to each action point in the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14477/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the options for ensuring a one site school for an existing primary school (details supplied) will be investigated which under current plans will end up on three sites with a new primary school between two of those sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13881/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Internships (26 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if medical students who graduated in Latvia are ineligible for internships in hospitals here as they are deemed to have completed their basic medical training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13282/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 878. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 253 of 9 October 2018 and 194 of 13 March 2019, if he will make a new offer of a meeting with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13829/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It sounds as if one value-for-money engineering exercise was completed and identified savings of €20 million which, in the context of construction costs of €1.433 billion, represents a saving of 1.4%. The national children's hospital is a big glass doughnut with a massive garden on the roof. As anyone who has ever built a wall or an extension or watched a Dermot Bannon...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The idea that we would not look at the design of the building when a cost overrun of this scale has happened is not acceptable. It certainly would not be acceptable to people who were spending their own money. The project costs have risen from €650 million to €1.4 billion. That is like getting a price of €250,000 to build a house and then two years later being told...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I am very familiar with it-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I asked if it was considered.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 6. To ask the Minister for Health if a value engineering exercise has been or will be carried out in regard to identifying opportunities to reduce the building costs for the national children's hospital; if so, if changes are being implemented or considered for implementation further to this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12197/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: When major construction projects go over budget there is commonly something done called value engineering which examines the building, its shape, the way it is built and laid out, the services and all sorts of other issues, to find ways to drive down costs. It is done all over the world and regularly in Ireland and is typically very successful. Has such an exercise been done for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister of State says there is no endless pot of money and I agree. Is it not then extraordinary that €1 billion can be found to build the same hospital? When it comes to certain things, there is an endless pot of money. My calculation is that the switch can be flipped. When our healthcare system is about to explode and half a million people are waiting to see a consultant, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 3. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the new entrant pay disparity for consultant doctors; the status of new contracts for hospital consultants; the number of meetings he has had on these topics with consultant representative groups (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12662/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: We have a chronic and urgent issue with the low levels of doctor and consultant numbers. It is leading to the longest waiting lists in the history of the State. More than 500,000 people are waiting to see a consultant and 1 million people are waiting for diagnostic tests, consultant appointments, special needs services and so on. One of the biggest drivers of this is the massive pay...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is an appalling situation, for which I blame not the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, but the absentee Minister for Health. Less than one week from St. Patrick's Day, the Minister is active on Twitter but he is not in the Dáil to answer questions. He was not in the Chamber last night for a Private Members' motion on the national children's hospital, nor was he before the Select...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 60. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the new entrant pay disparity for consultant doctors; the status of the new contracts for hospital consultants; the number of meetings he has had on these topics with consultant representative groups (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12198/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 79. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the CervicalCheck delays; the number of women waiting for test results for more than four weeks; the length of time women are waiting; the projected commencement date for the HPV test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12196/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations to reverse FEMPI for general practitioners; if a schedule or timeline for full reversal has been agreed; if so, the timeline in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 87. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is operating within budget to date in 2019 including the current and capital expenditure budgets; if not, the areas in which the budget is overrunning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12195/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (13 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 194. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 9 October 2018, the reason there has been no attempt to arrange a meeting since July 2018 with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12459/19]