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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: It does not affect consultants or fourth-year nurses, as Deputy Cullinane said. It does not affect safe staffing. There are many important areas that are not covered by the pause. There are, however, some areas that are. I accept that it is a blunt instrument. There is no question about that. In some teams throughout the country right now, somebody has retired or left an important role....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: It was 6,000.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Cullinane. Many of them will come to work in the public system. We have covered nurses and doctors. The third big group are the health and social care professionals, as Deputy Cullinane has rightly pointed out. We are hiring health and social care professionals this year. We are hiring them with the new development funding. The individual regions will be given an awful...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I will ask the officials to find the figure. It is very disappointing. The low take-up is very surprising. The card is very valuable. It is free GP care for you and your family into the future, particularly during a cost-of-living crisis with families under so much pressure. This measure really was targeted at those families who were under the most pressure, which is the squeezed middle.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Yes I believe that is right. When I saw the low uptake I instructed the Department and the HSE to immediately get under the skin of this and see what it is. Instinctively I believe it is exactly what the Deputy has just said. I will get the figures for the Deputy, but we have seen a much higher uptake of the GP cards for the ages six and seven, and less for the cards for those on the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: On the Deputy's first point around the total number of beds coming this year and if that was part of the original allocation, the original allocation was 1,228 beds. We are up to 1,126 of that. That is about 102 shy of the 1,228. The beds this year will be to finish that figure and then move beyond it. It is also important to say that we have had 147 new beds to open this year and...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Thank goodness the clock is not being used today, Chair. Thank you for all that. I will respond to some of it. I will pass over to the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on the public health response to obesity and then other public health responses she may want to cover. I will ask Louise McGirr to come in on the section 39 bodies, on which there is progress, and some of the detail...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Based on the patient you referred to and the times they were-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I have asked for a detailed progress update on the back of that. We might share it with the committee when we get it. I will pass over to the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on the public health response.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I will just make two quick points. First, as the Chai will be aware, we have just finished a really important transition for the remaining hospices to move from section 39 to section 38. It was very expensive. It was many times more than the initial estimate from the hospices. The Government made the funding available and it is making a big difference now. The funding really is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: The next thing the Chair raised was the elective hospitals for Cork and Galway. The preliminary business case, as he will be aware, was approved just over a year ago for St. Stephen's Hospital as the preferred site in Cork, and Merlin Park as the preferred site in Galway. A lot work has been going on. Since then, the HSE is progressing the procurement for the design team, which will...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chair.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I can, of course.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his question. When the Deputy is talking about diagnostics, is he talking about things like magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, ultrasound or X-ray?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I can certainly ask. That would be quite a departure for the NTPF. The NTPF has been expanding its remit in any event. It has targeted long waiters and inpatient day case hospital lists and has now targeted people who are not waiting that long at all. In more and more high-volume procedures, it is now beginning to contact people who have been waiting for just 12 weeks and is organising...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I will certainly raise it with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his questions. I was delighted to hear he got such good care in UHL. When we talk about UHL, we tend to talk about the consistent and unacceptable pressures for patients and staff in the emergency department. It is worth saying the hospital is making very considerable progress on its waiting lists and has been for some time. We need to acknowledge that. We come...