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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Ms Magahy have a sense of when she will be able to report on the projected workforce and physical asset needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for their very considered review. It is worrying. The witnesses have been forthright and have called out the areas about which they have worries. I am going to make one nakedly political point to which I do not expect them to respond, although it is relevant to implementation, and then I have four questions. The political point is that healthcare has been extremely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: On that, does Professor Thomas have a year-on-year profile of that €19 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Which bit I am wrong on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The point I was making was that nobody knows what Sláintecare is. They are not interested in it. They need the results and access.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is exactly the point I was making. The public does not need to be on board for Sláintecare. That is a reconfiguration plan. One needs clinicians, GPs and the HSE. What the public wants is timely and affordable access to high-quality care. I take Dr. Burke's point that it is important to make Sláintecare real to the public by reducing costs. I am asking a slightly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is not true. It was entirely endorsed by Fianna Fáil.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 28 September 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [40331/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form. [40332/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less by ambulance station in each month in 2018 to August or latest date available. [40333/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) regarding vehicles associated with the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40334/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service by the year they entered service; the number between pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances currently in service by the year they entered service; the number by pods and vehicles in terms of the date they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity, respectively by HSE region and subdivided by every 50,000 miles or 80,000 kilometres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred [40337/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each local health office, LHO, area. [40338/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home care package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and 12 months plus, respectively. [40339/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20, 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls, respectively in tabular form [40340/18]