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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Not for individual things. It is for the list of issues I have raised. Has anyone ever been sanctioned in any way for any of them, to the best of the Minister of State's knowledge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Are individuals sanctioned? I understand that the director general might point to a service and say, child and adolescent mental health service is in crisis and needs to be escalated or scoliosis needs to be escalated. My question is around personal accountability for what patients are dealing with. To the best of Mr. Connaghan's knowledge, has an individual been sanctioned in any way for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am asking a different question. I appreciate Mr. Connaghan saying that he is looking at issues and trying to solve them, but I am asking whether an individual has been sanctioned for any of the failures I have listed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Maybe later, if we could. Chairman, do I have time for another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Will I wait and come in later as it is a long question and will take more than 60 seconds? I am happy to stop and come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome the Minister. I want to discuss the recruitment and retention crisis and his views on what is happening. Let me start with consultants. We know one in five consultant posts is currently vacant and that a very small number of consultants are applying for vacant posts relative to ten years ago. We know that in many hospitals it is becoming impossible to hire-in consultants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: We have covered much ground but I would like to return to the specific questions. Does the Minister accept there is a crisis in recruitment and retention, either for nurses and midwives or consultants? He accepted that new entrant pay is a driver of challenges, whether he accepts it is a crisis or not. On the IHCA, I accept that the Minister intended to speak at its conference although...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a quick follow-up question for Mr. Connaghan as acting director general of the HSE. I cited the example of a third of GUH's operating theatres being shut because it cannot hire a handful of theatre nurses. I have other examples across the system of hospitals incurring massive fixed costs, including staffing, with detrimental effects on patients and on doctors, who are getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Henry. Perhaps Mr. Connaghan could address my question to him if time allows.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years in order to maintain existing levels of health services. [47295/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years to meet demographic challenges. [47296/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (13 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a clerk of works was appointed for the construction of a school (details supplied); if the clerk conducted inspections of the building; if those inspections included issues relating to fire safety and-or structural issues; if these issues were raised with the company contracted to build the school; if the company committed to addressing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (13 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 451. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the fall in the number of staff nurses employed in the health services from April to September 2018 with 245 fewer employed over the course of those months. [47144/18]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I will speak directly to the amendment because it forms part of a pattern where seemingly reasonable proposals are being put forward that then undo themselves. Informing parents is a reasonable goal but not in the way proposed for all the reasons we have discussed because it would include informing a father who raped his daughter and made her pregnant. Ultrasound scans are a reasonable idea...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: We are being asked to address the amendment. The amendment is mandatory and forces women because it tells them they will have no access to termination of pregnancy unless we sit them through all of this, unless we tell them things the pharmacist in the room tells us are medically dangerous and unless websites have a weekly security protocol attached to them. That is what this amendment...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: No, but I can speak to my understanding of it. There is no Standing Order that says I cannot do that.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is correct, but I can tell the Chairman what I have concluded. I may not be correct but my conclusion is that there are people in this room-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: -----who have the experience to know that no legislature could ever accept this amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: This country has a dark history of not trusting women. Scandal after scandal has been attached to maternity care, childbirth and women's reproductive rights. Last night, we heard about a case before Mr. Justice Peter Kelly involving a doctor working in a maternity hospital. What a surprise. Comments have been made about misogyny. I am not making an allegation if misogyny but my...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to speak briefly to the section which deals with consent. It states: "Nothing in this Act shall operate to affect any enactment or rule of law relating to consent ...". Therefore, existing legislation applies. I am particularly interested in two case scenarios. One relates to where the pregnant woman is under the age of 16. My understanding is that when a woman is aged 16 or older...