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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but our healthcare workers have reduced the waiting times for children in Dublin and other areas from two to three years to six weeks.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What about Deputy Michael Collins's own area? He is aware of the really important investment we are putting into Ballincollig. He is aware that we have taken cataract surgery out of Cork University Hospital and put it into South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital and Ballincollig. I fully accept that it is not fixed and that we are not there yet but what you will find-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democratic debate may not suit the Deputy; I fully appreciate that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that parliamentary debate may not suit the Deputy.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the record investment in healthcare in Kerry and Cork does not suit the Deputies' election campaigns-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but it is nonetheless true. No matter how much the Deputies shout at the Government and how many times they come in here with false information, it is a fact.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It may not suit the Deputies that there is record investment. Not for a moment am I suggesting that everything is fixed. Deputies Cullinane and Shortall and others have rightly pointed out that we have several years to go but it is undeniable that our healthcare workers, who have been hired in record numbers, are turning this ship around.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In my constituency and the Deputies' constituencies, they are turning it around.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: They are reducing waiting times and rolling out new services.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputies can shout as much as they like-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but it will not take from the improvements that healthcare workers are making in their constituencies and mine.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 233(2), Standing Order 187 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024, that it has the power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill, in relation to:the Health Act 1970, to provide that HSE Guidelines on "ordinarily...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What the Deputy is saying is entirely false.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputies for their support of the Bill, which is greatly appreciated. I look forward to going to Committee Stage. In the time I have, I will address some of the other issues that colleagues raised. Whether I should or not, I am going to start with the contribution of Deputy Boyd Barrett. I listened to probably five minutes of the misinformation that Deputy Boyd Barrett brought...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: He sets himself up as the champion of our healthcare workers and he says that no progress is being made towards universal healthcare or Sláintecare.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Our healthcare workers have halved the time that people wait for an outpatient appointment but Deputy Boyd Barrett says that is irrelevant. They have revolutionised women's healthcare but Deputy Boyd Barrett says that is irrelevant. They have brought in IVF and free contraception and are about to bring in free HRT, and they brought in specialist services in menopause and endometriosis, but...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Is it better across the board? It is not. Our healthcare workers have brought waiting times in this country down from over 13 months to seven months and we are going towards the agreed Sláintecare target that no one waits more than ten to 12 weeks but, apparently, that is irrelevant. Apparently according to Deputy Boyd Barrett, all of the progress that our healthcare workers are...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Last year.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sure it is being looked at.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This is an annual technical Bill regarding health insurance. However, there is a crucial difference this year in that I propose to make amendments to the Bill in the House in the coming hour or two which will create the legal framework for the provision of free hormone replacement therapy in Ireland for the first time. We are liberally...