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- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: And premises.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: In terms of a plan for converting agency staff to permanent staff-----
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: -----in both nursing and hospital consultants. We have figures on that.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: They are two stand-out areas. At the moment, from the point of view of staff, it is much more lucrative to be an agency staff member than a permanent staff member. Does Mr. O'Brien have a plan to convert those posts?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Has Mr. O'Brien done any analysis on that?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It had surveyed its members to see the reasons why they were leaving Ireland. Has Mr. O'Brien done similar work in that regard? What efforts, if any, has he made to address those underlying reasons?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Streamlining recruitment processes is a different issue. We are talking about the reasons why nurses and doctors are leaving the Irish health service to go abroad. What research or analysis has the HSE done on the reasons they are leaving and what efforts has it made to address those reasons?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. O'Brien outline for us some of the work he is doing?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We want to move on and complete the GP contract issue. What kind of timeline is the HSE working to? When does Mr. O'Brien expect negotiations to commence?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We will move on to the next group of questioners.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: There are a lot of people looking to come in. Will Mr. O'Brien answer briefly on the full capacity protocol and children's mental health services?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. O'Brien provide us with the figures for the number of occasions on which each hospital invoked the full-capacity protocol over the past year?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We would appreciate that.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The second question is on children's mental health services.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. O'Brien to provide it to us within the next week.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: For the benefit of members, and following on from Deputy Brassil's question about vacancies at senior management level, I draw the committee's attention to the document we circulated which contains responses that came in to this question. On page 6 of the document there is a management structure diagram. Below the level of director general, DG, there are three senior posts, two of which are...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It strikes me that the HSE has commenced a restructuring programme of its own in this regard because it is quite different to the original structure.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. O'Brien said primary care was represented. How was it represented?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: That person did not have any management role, though.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, but in terms of the delivery of primary care through the CHOs, they did not have any decision-making role.