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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Will that be a separate section or will we take them all together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister, his officials and Mr. Reid. As someone who does not have private health insurance, I genuinely wish Mr. Reid the very best because I am relying on him - as are many people - to do a very good job. I am sure he will. The nurses were on strike for three days but the HSE has no excuse for the other 362 days. Every person who has spoken - bar one - mentioned the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry but my question was about targets. Has the Minister set them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Does that include final year students?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but they used to be counted as 0.5 whole-time equivalent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: They are still counted in that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: They are there as 0.5 whole-time equivalent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My question was had the Department set targets. It might have been quicker to say, "No". As an aside, Ms Rothwell is welcome but her presence was not flagged to committee members in advance and was not referenced in any of the opening statements. I have some questions for her but we were not prepared or alerted to the fact she would be here and I assumed that there would not be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Connor said that supervision is in place. Is that for every single consultant so that each consultant who is not on the specialist register but is paid and working as though he or she is comes under some form of supervision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Does that mean that they do not work on their own or how does that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: When Ms Rosarii Mannion was here, I asked if there was a running total of people heading in the direction of a contract of indefinite duration and if it was being monitored. It did not appear to be. Does the presence of this new process and work streams mean the monitoring is now in place and that X number of consultants are on their way to a contract of indefinite duration and they will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: As unscheduled care is really the nature of the business these people are in, it should not come as any surprise. The Minister indicated there are 127 primary care centres that are fully operational. I have one in my area that I have referenced many times. Mr. Reid would be familiar with the one in Balbriggan. No additional staff were provided for that, despite the growing population, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The end of June is halfway through the year. It was reported that there would be a private facility within the national children's hospital but is the Minister now saying that is not the case and this portion may be used for other services? It was not clear what the Minister said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am specifically talking about that portion of the children's hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If it does not, we will be paying to build a private facility within that project. At some point we will claim back some money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not see it as an unfair representation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We do not agree on everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister said that the consultants will pay for the private wing of the hospital. How much will it cost, and how will the Minister get the money from them? Is the Minister just guessing that he might get the money back at some point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: To be specific, I want to know how much it is going to cost and how the Minister is going to get every shilling of it back. Of course it would be better if we were not spending on that, but that is the Government's own business and its own ideology. I have a few very quick questions. A couple of weeks ago my colleague, Deputy Funchion, filled in for me and the Minister made a commitment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I would be grateful if the Minister could do that.