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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: It does matter.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that. It does matter that, literally, in the days before budget day I secured an additional half billion euro and that is important. The position that they had there on the figure of €808 million did not include the €500 million that we did get. Close to the end they did move and moved considerably. What is precise is the cashflow projection. On the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: He may well not have seen it. I know that there is a lot of emails that I get sent that I do not see.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I said that the average is about 10%
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: Clearly, it is a matter of public record. I think that the Deputy, and I presume the rest of the committee members, have the documentation. We have produced numerous IGEES papers covering these issues, which were shared early on in the discussions.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: The advice I have is that it was released under freedom of information, FOI. Whether it was picked up or not is another matter. I understand that a considerable FOI request went in and the email from one Secretary General to another was part of that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I do not know.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I am not diminishing it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: Can I say-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I will make two quick points, if I may. The first is that regardless of who read the letter, from memory, there was not much in it that had not already been articulated. Maybe it had not been articulated by the chief executive of the HSE but by me and my officials. The letter was in line with what we had been saying. I agree with the Deputy on finding a better way to do this, for the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I am just trying to agree with the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate and acknowledge that. All I am saying in response is that I think the solution to this will not be about who read what, but an independent expert review of the future of healthcare so we can all-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is asking how we get away from this in future years and I think that is the answer.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: I will ask the officials for a view on that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: Dental services are not on the point of collapse. Health services are not on the point of collapse, to be clear. They are well funded and have had significant additional funding in the lifetime of this Government. When I agreed that there needed to be better engagement with the Irish Dental Association, I called a meeting and informed it that we needed to fundamentally reset the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: There has been ongoing engagement and an increase in funding over the last few years. On the preventative measures-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: With regard to new development, that is correct, but it is also the case that all of the considerable additional funding that we have put in place over the last few years is being retained and used.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: A considerable amount is being done. For example, in the budget for next year, there is one-off funding of nearly €3.5 million for the orthodontic waiting lists. Smile agus Sláinte, the national oral healthcare policy, is being funded. The advice I got from the chief dentist was that we needed national clinical leadership roles. They were funded. The Deputy correctly referred...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy and I know, while I do not want to get the years wrong, that there is a year in school where pupils are meant to get that intervention, and it has slipped far too much.