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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is session 2 on the use of private hospitals. From the Department of Health, I welcome Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General, and Mr. Greg Dempsey, deputy secretary. They are appearing in committee room 1. From the HSE, I welcome Mr. Liam Woods, national director, acute operations, Ms Angela Fitzgerald, deputy national director, acute operations, and Dr. Vida Hamilton, national clinical...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I apologise but I must interrupt Mr. Woods in the interest of time. I appreciate he was giving us a summary.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Members will have five or ten minutes for questions and responses from witnesses. We begin with Fine Gael members.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Mr. Woods. I will take Fianna Fáil now. Deputy Butler will be followed by Deputy Donnelly.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are at the end of Deputy Donnelly's time and I do not want him to take from Deputy Cullinane's time. Is Deputy Cullinane taking five or ten minutes?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I call Deputy Noonan and he has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Quickly, please.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Woods. I will have to move on to Deputy Shortall.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Excuse me, Deputy Duncan Smith is quite correct.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Breslin-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry but Deputy Shanahan is out of time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Mr. Woods and Mr. Breslin. Deputy Burke has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We have gone way over but we had extra time. I see we have another speaker. I call Deputy McGuinness.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy McGuinness.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to take the opportunity to thank everyone and to thank the witnesses, not just for their attendance today and the preparation for it, but for all the work they have done over this period. The exceptional work and commitment to public service epitomises public service values, has been extraordinary and they have worked extraordinarily hard. If I never got to say anything else on this,...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Breslin said that a decision was made very quickly in respect to private hospitals; in a matter of days. Can he give us a sense of how quickly? What sort of period did he have to make that decision?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: At the same time, NPHET had suspended - if that is the correct term - general access to the hospitals in order to try to reduce community transmission and infection within hospitals.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As a representative, the queries I was getting in the first instance related to whether people could get access to treatment, and that got resolved pretty quickly. People were getting access, for example, to injections to the eye - I do not want to get the term wrong - or continuing cancer treatment. Now the questions are about getting access to ongoing diagnostic tests. I am sure Mr....
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If I take five minutes, will Deputy McGuinness come after me?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Grand. If I take five minutes, my colleague can also take five minutes.