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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: On the four-month plan relating to the surge, what are we talking about in financial terms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: In that four-month period, you are talking about tens of millions of euro, I am guessing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: It is serious. Over a year, that is €100 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: The PHA wants to squeeze the HSE as much as possible. I am using that term but Mr. Gloster is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: What happens in a hypothetical situation where the private hospitals say they do not have the capacity or are not in a position to work with the HSE around the winter overcrowding plan? What happens then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is not good. We should not be in a position where we have to rely on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: No, far from it. However, that scenario could arise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: The hospitals want more money, essentially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Will the HSE give that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Getting back to the hypothetical situation Mr. Gloster may find himself in, if the private hospitals do not engage with the HSE in relation to the winter months, we will be relying on the capacity in the public sector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Okay. That could be problematic, as we have seen before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: It is usually lucrative. Of course it is. I thank Mr. Gloster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Is the crux of this not the question of why we are still relying on private medicine all the time in the public service? Surely this is a public service rather than a private service. I am sure the PHA is making a lot of money out of this. We should not be relying-----
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: This has been a very sorry episode, to say the least. We talk about trust and confidence in our health service, and when families have been let down fundamentally, it can leave a terrible taste in people's mouths. Families should never be in this situation. There are families with children in complicated situations who need that intervention as soon as possible, and because of the fallout...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: I wish our witnesses good afternoon. I have a number of questions for Mr. Luley of Dignitas. I thank him for his ongoing work. He spoke about his background and living with dignity and dying with dignity. That is very important because those who come to Dignitas want to die but because of circumstances out their hands have come to Mr. Luley's services. I am not sure whether he can give...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Okay. Obviously, the majority of people who come to Dignitas in a year are coming from a country where voluntary assisted dying is illegal, such as Britain, other countries in Europe and even ones outside Europe. How many people avail of assisted dying in Dignitas per year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is per year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Gino Kenny: There are people using the services of Dignitas even though assisted dying is legal in their country.