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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Pauline Tully: I want to raise the issue of the cardiology service in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital. GPs in both counties have been written to and told not to refer cardiology patients to the hospital because there is no consultant. The consultant has left to take up another position. They say recruitment is ongoing but that could take months. There is no pathway for referral being outlined to them...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: Is it the absence of cardiologists in Cavan-Monaghan?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Pauline Tully: In Cavan-Monaghan.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: Okay. I will talk to the Minister for Health in relation to that. There should be alternative pathways of referral for people with challenges in respect of cardiac disease notwithstanding the fact that they are currently recruiting, as the Deputy said, for a cardiologist. I will talk to the Minister for Health.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: Earlier, the Tánaiste acknowledged that PDS is continuing to fail as a policy in terms of providing for the needs of children, particularly in special schools. I want to raise the pilot scheme that the Tánaiste referenced as well earlier in relation to the reintroduction of therapists into special schools. The Tánaiste referenced that there were considerable roadblocks to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, I thank the Deputy, who has been pursuing this issue for quite some time. In my view, on the pilot scheme, I would prefer a much wider scheme. We are three parties in government. I have very clear views as to what we need to do now and that is a wholly school-based multidisciplinary delivery model. On the issues around recruitment of therapists, the HSE clearly has issues in terms...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----beginning with our special schools, so that the occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists are in the schools with the teachers. That would be a much more consistent and sustainable model than the one which has not worked to date.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: The overspend and the massive delay that exists in the national children's hospital exists because of the ill-defined, woolly confusion in that hospital contract. The contract for the national children's hospital was signed by the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, and it has proven to be a shambles. It has created an open chequebook for BAM. I have the bill of quantities for the tender for the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. The time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: The Government is incinerating taxpayers' money.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Will the Government review the tender process for the national maternity hospital, given the fiasco over the national children's hospital?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the question of definitive design has been raised in respect of the national children's hospital. The PwC report goes into considerable detail on errors and mistakes that were made at the time-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: They were signed off on.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of the development of the national children's hospital and so on, and all of that. On the national maternity hospital, the delay was more on the political side in terms of getting that project off the ground.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: That was your fault.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: When you delay, you increase costs. We had a farcical debate in here on that question for far too long.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: That is a different question.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is relevant to costs, and the increased costs.