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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does that mean? I ask Mr. Reid to speak to me in practical terms. I have a child who is waiting 26 months for an assessment. When is he likely to get an assessment under the new plan? If a child is born today down the road in Holles Street Hospital and an issue becomes apparent in the first year of his or her life, under the timeline for the interim solutions and new plan, when will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is not the experience of the breadth of my constituents. I appreciate that it may be so, but I assure Mr. Reid that it is not so on the ground.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My point is that people do not get the services in a universal way. I am sorry to cut across Ms O'Connor. That may be so in some community healthcare organisation, CHO, areas. The witnesses will be aware that the Ombudsman for Children is doing a report on the consistency across CHO areas, which is due to be published in 2022. Certainly, in my own area of CHO 6, it is not so for the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Then there is the additional complication of an intellectual disability being brought in with an assessment of need in respect of autism and how that can be an additional complicating and delaying factor.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could not agree more. It is not an either-or thing. It is very much both and they do not need to contradict each other and there is no need to have a stream that delays or impedes the delivery of therapeutic services, which is all that parents want.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do know indeed. I have another case in my constituency of a child who is 17 and is about to age out of the process but is yet to receive an assessment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department has a substantially increased budget for this. The Minister announced an additional 100 posts and then another 80 posts, 24 of which were to be allocated to my area. I appreciate Ms O'Connor cannot speak about the 24 posts but how many of the 180 have been filled?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Funding is not the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Assistant psychologists were going to be attempted to be used to try to help. Will Ms O'Connor tell me more about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How quickly can that be done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the recruitment challenge but there is a sense of ongoing drift. Again, on the timely assessment for the child who is five years and has waited 26 months for assessment or the child born today who will be identified as having a difficulty, under the new process Mr. Reid is developing with the Minister now, what is the interim solution and when will we have a timeline for the new...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Ms O'Connor give me a ballpark? Is it a year, three years or three months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Why would the priority be to reassess children under that system rather than prioritise children who are growing up with difficulties not being addressed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: And that is a priority because of what exactly? What is the pressure there making it more of a priority than assessing children?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, fine, but what is it in the court ruling that says that must be prioritised over other things, or is that the HSE's interpretation of it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about those other children who have not yet had an assessment of need who also have an entitlement and who did not fall under the category of the High Court ruling?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is both. That is exactly my point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My difficulty with the chronological approach is that it just creates further delay for the children at an early stage now and creates more difficulties for them. Again, does this have to be either-or? Can this be both?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: When a parent points out that an assessment has not taken place and the HSE says it has, do the officials think we can respond in a cultural way in future to what parents are saying?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 35. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work that is underway to establish appropriate care practices for persons particularly children with long-Covid across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25718/22]