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- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: How much of that is dedicated to electronic referrals?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. Mr. O'Brien is saying that €50 million is being spent currently. Do the witnesses have a ballpark figure for the cost of the full implementation of electronic health records?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Is the international standard 2% to 3%?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: And we are on 0.4%.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: What does that mean?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I will revert to the question on structures. A well-functioning organisation should be able to display its management structure on a one-page diagram. The diagram before me of senior management within the HSE bears no relation to what is happening on the ground in terms of the hospital, community health care organisation, CHO, and mental health service systems or primary care teams. This...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Just to clarify, if there is a management structure for CHOs, is there a separate management structure for mental health teams? There is a separate structure for hospitals.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The areas are not aligned, but each has its own management structure. Is that right?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but is there a management structure within each mental health team?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It sounds like a great deal of management.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: That is beside the point in terms of the delivery of services.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I think that completes the business of the committee for today. I thank Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Woods for attending the meeting and responding to our questions. It is much appreciated.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. O'Brien should give the press officer a pay rise. He is out of the room at the moment.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (30 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: 150. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 15 November 2016, the reason the HSE’s legal advisers drafted this memo in the first instance; the person or body that sought this advice; the person or body that approved its issuing; the rationale behind this information being requested from the HSE’s legal advisers; and if he will make a...
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: 22. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to address the shortage of affordable studio space for artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37698/16]
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We all talk about our visual artists with a sense of national pride and we frequently praise them. Artists cannot live on praise and pride, however, they need investment in facilities. At the most basic level. we need to provide more studio space for artists in which to work. We know from Visual Artists Ireland that some 67% of artists earn less than €25,000 a year. We need to...
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that information and those initiatives are certainly welcome. We have seen in recent years, especially as the commercial property market starts to bounce back, that a number of premises, especially in Dublin city, have been lost to the artistic community. I refer to places such as the Broadstone Studios, The Joinery in Stoneybatter and Block T in Smithfield. All...
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Unfortunately, the provision of €3 million a year nationally will not go very far in terms of acquiring premises. Considering the price of premises in the Dublin area, something needs to be done. I acknowledge the work that has been done by the arts officer in Dublin City Council but the problem is that demand is far outstripping supply. We need to look at new ways of bringing...
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I have no information on the reason that was withdrawn.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I have. A new procedure was agreed at the Business Committee last week where there was disagreement among the parties on the taking of business. It was proposed that there would be telephone contact between the Members the night before and if agreement could not be reached, a meeting of the Business Committee would be convened the following morning. I suggest that rather than dividing the...