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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chairman. I will not need 45 minutes, as the previous questioner took.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Kelly had 45 minutes and I ask him not to interrupt other speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: May the rest of us talk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I would like to go back to the basics and ask what the problem is because if one looks at our healthcare system from the outside, this should not be happening. We have young boys and girls waiting for operations for spina bifida. The average spinal curvature in cases involving scoliosis in Europe is 50 degrees, whereas in Ireland it takes so long to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is the statement I am challenging. That is what everybody assumes. They say that we do not have enough stuff so all of these poor people have to wait and suffer but if we spend more, have a younger population, need less and have the same amount already, explain to us what the capacity problem is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: No-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am asking the witness to explain it because his job is to reduce these waiting lists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is not the question I am asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am only asking one question because this is at the core of the whole problem. There is this view that we need more stuff. We need more acute beds, doctors, nurses and maybe we do and maybe we do not but the reality is that per age-adjusted population, we already have more of all of this stuff than countries who do not have our waiting lists so they clearly are doing something better than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I ask Mr. Woods to boil that down. We will have to agree to disagree about the data. This is the Department of Health's capacity review and it unambiguously shows that we do not have significantly fewer healthcare assets than others. It shows that we have more than some countries and less than others. Those are the facts. Given that we are younger and have approximately the same assets,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Woods.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister is right that the eighth amendment is a separate issue, but I was concerned that the NAGP was hearing Ministers talk about a GP-led service when it, as the representative of many of the GPs, has not been consulted. Similarly, the association wrote to the Minister about CervicalCheck pointing out that although the Minister was saying that GPs would play a big role in supporting...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract, the engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied) in the negotiations and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28600/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Minister for Health will be aware, the GP sector is in crisis. GPs have faced repeated cuts, there is an almost complete breakdown in relationships between GPs and the HSE and there are massive recruitment and retention problems. According to some estimates, seven out of ten GP surgeries are no longer taking in new patients. One of the keys to rebuilding the sector is a new GP...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: While I accept that the Minister is speaking in good faith, I have read all the correspondence from his Department to the NAGP and none of it gives any dates whatsoever. I will refer to the timeline. On 13 March 2018, the NAGP wrote to the Minister seeking a meeting on the referendum on the eighth amendment. It was concerned about talks about a GP-led service when GPs were not being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to enable the sharing of best practice between hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28313/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 39. To ask the Minister for Health when a cannabis for medicinal use access programme will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 49. To ask the Minister for Health when a Sláintecare implementation plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28312/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 74. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will have a new director general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28314/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (28 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the measures to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28315/18]