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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: We are not looking at 24-7 at present but only because the feedback from clinicians is there just would not be enough people coming in. An awful lot of people would be hired to sit there through the night doing very little. However, it is something we should always keep under advisement. We talked about capacity. It is important to say that a large part of the solution now in UHL is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I will certainly review the situation. As he said, the proposals he made seem very sensible. Let us take a look.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy about eating disorders. We are now recruiting into ten eating disorder teams around the country. We have seen a significant increase in general youth mental health presentations, including for body dysmorphia and eating disorders. Ten specialist teams have been set up, are being staffed and are making a big difference. This was one of the elements of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy might send me the details of that case.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: The answer to this is the innovation that I saw in the eye and ear hospital last Friday, whereby more care is now being provided in the community by optometrists and specialist nurses, leaving the ophthalmologists free to do the most complex cases. The hospital has reduced its waiting list from years to months. We want that approach rolled out across the country.
- 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 brought a memo to the Government in December for a bridging amount. The board was sanctioned for €1.433 billion and was close to that amount, so I brought a memo for €40 million as a bridging amount. There is a significant additional funding requirement. The officials can correct me if I am misremembering, but from memory, the latest programme of works from the developer...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: That amount is commercially sensitive because it is what the board believes it will need as part of the negotiations with the contractor. For obvious reasons, we do not want the contractor knowing-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: -----how much money we believe we will allocate.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: It is commercially sensitive. The board, on our behalf, is in the middle of an engagement with the contractor involving substantial amounts of money. It is not simply a question of the board saying it needs this amount and then there is a commercially sensitive amount on top of that. It is not in the interest of the taxpayer to signal to the contractor how much money we are considering. I...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I wish to clarify something. In September last year, it submitted its programme of works.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: It is saying quarter 4. It is not necessarily September this year, it was September last year, in quarter 4.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Not so far. I have had conversations with the chair of the board but they probably happened in late December.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I had those conversations with the chair of the board in December. I doubt the position changed much between late September and now. I would be amazed if the board said it was fully confident in any timetable the contractor has given it because every single timetable the contractor has given it has proven not to be the case. The board will speak for itself. Based on my conversations with...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: That is right.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I agree with everything the Deputy said with one caveat. I assure him there has been significant senior political involvement in this matter over the past number of years. It is ongoing. BAM Ireland and BAM International are clearly aware of the Irish Government's position and our deep frustration with how this project has unfolded.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Steady on now, Chair.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: Regarding specific services in any hospital, be it Ennis or anywhere else, it is a matter for the national service plan, which will shortly be published but has not been brought to the Government yet, and the capital plan, which we will publish. However, I will ask officials to get an update for the Deputy on haemodialysis in Ennis. Regarding University Hospital Limerick, I have a few...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: No chance.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Stephen Donnelly: I ask the Deputy to provide a page reference.