Results 601-620 of 7,412 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has Mr. Devane done a scoping exercise on the kind of liability the HSE faces on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I presume that is the risk committee, is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: The financial liability.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I suppose it speaks to maybe going back to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and saying that here is the financial liability of having a network like this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If that committee has an overarching framework it is working towards, does it have a sense of the timeline for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When is Mr. Devane expecting it to report on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Devane mentioned the various committees. That issue around investment in digital is separate from the liability that the HSE faces for any data breaches. I presume those two committees are working hand in glove.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. There is currently a report in the media in respect of physical data breaches. Is that a concern? I have some questions about capital spend in the management of estates, etc. I probably will not get to them in this slot but may get to them when I speak next. It strikes me that some of the reports are physical records that have been left in various storage facilities. Those are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: We do not need to discuss the specifics of the case. The HSE owns a huge amount of building stock, some of which is in current use. I imagine that some of the stock that is not necessarily in active use is used as storage. That must be coming up at board level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has the case that has recently been opened by the commissioner been the matter of discussion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I presume that will result in some kind of review or audit of storage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Devane would want to speak to the board beforehand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. I will move to some of the issues around workforce planning. At this committee, we have talked a lot about the HSE, with the Department, undertaking a piece of work around that. Last month, ICTU asked for a timeline for the publication of that pay and numbers report. When will we see that report? We have been talking about it here for six months or a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What does "it is not there yet" mean with regard to a timeline?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Are you given to understand it will be by the end of the year or by the end of the month?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. Devane know are we gathering evidence within the framework of the current moratorium on hiring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In terms of the recruitment embargo or however you want to phrase it, is the workforce plan written in reference to or in the context of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When we had Bernard Gloster here before, we talked a number of times with him about the use of private management consultants and that commitment to reduce their use by up to €40 million. I was certainly very keen on that reduction because it is very worthwhile for any institution to build up its own in-house knowledge and not to be relying on external private management consultants....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will make a quick point relating to a committee meeting we had recently. The HSE is obviously going through a fairly significant restructuring in terms of more localised services and primary healthcare. One of the section 38 and 39 organisations made the point to us that whereas in the past the organisations would have negotiated the provision of services nationally, now they are looking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for all the work they do. From some of the previous submissions, it sounds like the alliance has had some conversations with the NCCP about levels of funding required. Is that fair to say? Yes. Have their been any discussions around multi-annual funding and whether that is something the alliance should be looking towards?