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- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: From memory, 77% comes from taxation. Out of pocket expenses-----
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We can get that chart.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: To clarify the Deputy's question about the division of health spend, we have figures for 2013 which indicate that 77% of total health financing was from taxation, 12% from out of pocket expenditure, 9% from private health insurance, and 2% from private corporations.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: They are significant figures.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to revisit a number of issues. Total health spend is approximately €19 billion, which puts us close to the top in Europe in that regard. The issue seems not so much to be about how much we spend but how it is spent. It does not necessarily follow that, if we are to have a universal health care system that meets the population's needs, it will entail much additional spending....
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Doing it differently.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We do not know the basis on which decisions are taken on the allocation of resources.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Right. The other issue is that of restructuring. There is restructuring fatigue within the health service and the constant churn of the past 20 years or so has been disruptive. Each time that there is a change in Minister, there is a restructuring. As a committee, we must address the question of how our health services are structured and the administration of health. For example, our six...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The management and oversight of it can be difficult.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Dr. Burke.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The voluntary hospitals are involved as well.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We look forward to receiving that e-mail. I thank Dr. Burke for coming in and being so generous with her time and sharing her expertise with us. Dr. Burke's input has been very helpful to the committee and we appreciate that she responded to all of the questions so well, especially appearing before us when she has only been back a few days from maternity leave.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I remind those present to either turn off their mobile phones or place them in flight mode. This is our second session and we are meeting representatives from the Seanad Civil Engagement group, who will make a presentation on the importance of a citizen-led approach to integrated care. At the outset, and as a formality, I remind Members of the long-standing ruling of the Chair to the effect...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Senator Kelleher for her comprehensive presentation. I also acknowledge the excellent submission she made to the committee some weeks ago. It is very good and I thank her for that. We will also hear from Senators Black and Dolan so who would like to speak first?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I call Senator Black.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the three witnesses for their comprehensive presentations. The committee is very pleased to have the benefit of the group's experience and expertise on the front line. There is no doubt that the Civil Engagement group has a huge amount to contribute to the work of the committee and we very much welcome the presentations and Senator Kelleher's earlier submission. Most of the material...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Senator think there is a lot of scope for amalgamating charities?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Is the Senator talking about citizen representatives participating through service user groups or through elected public representatives?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: What is Senator Dolan's view on that?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Senator Colette Kelleher made an important distinction between advocacy groups and service providers. Too often in our past, charities have had to step in to provide services where the State has failed. We seriously need to look at the State providing services that it should have provided in the past and, in that way, to bring more coherence to service delivery as well. Will Senator...