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Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does the Minister of State have a sense of when Report Stage will take place?

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Will it be in the next term?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (19 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 453. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes to be passed and connected with regard to the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26196/18]

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: On behalf of Fianna Fáil, I wish to extend our thoughts to the mothers, fathers and babies at the centre of the Portiuncula University Hospital report. What the report highlights is truly outrageous and scandalous. The report on maternity services at Portiuncula University Hospital was released approximately two months ago. It did not get much attention because we were in the middle...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the allocation of special teaching hours of a school (details supplied); the expected completion date for the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25949/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I have just arrived back to the committee room and I do not want to waste people's time. I was going to ask a question on enforcement; has that issue been discussed already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I did not hear the statement from HIQA but I read it earlier this morning. One of the issues raised was that under the proposed Bill, HIQA will not have any enforcement powers, which would make Ireland an outlier. I would appreciate comment on that from all of the parties involved. If it has already been discussed I am happy to go back and look through the transcripts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That was a good answer. On the separate Bill, are there plans to bring in the enforcement powers? I am referring to the Bill that does not have them. I also wanted to ask about the available resources and the need to ensure that HIQA, the Department and the hospitals themselves, are adequately resourced. There is extra and important work to be done in that regard. If that has already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is fine; I will read over the transcript later. On the enforcement issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it the case that we will have enforcement under licenses but not under patient safety? Is it the case that that is no greater power than that which HIQA already has?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does HIQA have sufficient powers under patient safety at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Is there an opportunity to bring it in under this Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought that Dr. Holohan was saying was that under the new Act, enforcement in respect of other activities would be granted. Perhaps an amendment Bill is required. We need to get to a point where HIQA can enforce its recommendations. There are substantial enforcement powers within this legislation. If we are going in that direction anyway - and it seems we should be - is this Bill an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The intention is to bring in enforcement powers with patient safety but that it is just not part of the current Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all of the delegates for their work and statements. I count 22 pages of statements. Clearly, there is a lot of activity, but I could not find a single sentence identifying existing problems. It is unbalanced. I appreciate that this is a political arena and that it is not really up to civil servants to come and hang out to dry the Government of the day on what is not working, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health. I beg your pardon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Carr. Her answer is that there is not enough money. In this case, moving this gentleman into a stepdown facility out of the NRH, which is obviously a high skill and expensive place for someone to be, would be cheaper. Given any envelope of money, why is it that we are keeping people unnecessarily in a high-cost, high-care environment, and not changing the mix of the money we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Carr. I wanted to raise this again because that is the reality. We can have all the plans, the work and the decent gestures we want, but if the reality is that we have a quadriplegic man, fully capable of going back to work and fully capable of leading quite an independent life with the right supports, who was discharged almost a year ago from the NRH, then something is badly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: It struck me as extraordinary, when I spoke to this mother, that she was waiting for over a year for an assessment. Is the Department aware that we have young girls with curved spines who are no longer able to sit in their own wheelchairs, sitting on the floor, waiting for a year for an assessment for a new wheelchair? Is the Department aware that is the level of the crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all of the delegates for their work and statements. I count 22 pages of statements. Clearly, there is a lot of activity, but I could not find a single sentence identifying existing problems. It is unbalanced. I appreciate that this is a political arena and that it is not really up to civil servants to come and hang out to dry the Government of the day on what is not working, but...