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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is. To the Deputy's first point, 126,000 staff have been paid.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I respectfully disagree with the language he used. We would all have preferred it to have been paid within the first week after the Government decision was made. The HSE has been dealing with a lot, in fairness. The other thing is the financial management systems are being improved, which goes back to the Chair's point about e-infrastructure. The HSE was nervous about this, and I think...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: There are many reasons. We need the data, the research and the cold hard information to say what exactly is driving all of these things in different ways. We also need a plan which we will be looking to put together to deal with this.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The €1.392 billion, Deputy, is a combination of more than that. If he looks at the main table-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: On Covid.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. O'Grady.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It is a great deal of money and a lot of patient harm, and that is my biggest concern. Of course, we have to be cognisant of the money, but ultimately this money is simply reflecting harmed patients, and that is what we have to be ruthless in identifying and eliminating.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I am going to hazard, if we are to assume the sum is broadly €1,000 each - some people are getting a little bit less than that - roughly €126 million has been spent.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy those figures. We are getting weekly updates now from the HSE. I will send the committee a note afterwards, but a large volume of the private and section 39 organisations are now returning these forms. I have asked the HSE to turn this around into the payments very quickly, which I want and I understand it is doing so. I said to the HSE that anyone who has submitted...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Of course, and none of us want to be here. Can we just take a step back for a moment. First of all, let us acknowledge that these payments should have happened earlier this year and that, while 126,000 and more by the end of the week have been paid, there are still tens of thousands who have not been paid. Let us also reflect that one of the things I and the Government were determined on...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It will not be up to a year, to be clear. The decision was only made earlier this year and the vast majority of these payments should be made before Christmas, so that will still be within the same year.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes, I would have hoped it would have all happened in the first number of months, as do we all.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: That is €697 million, Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. My apologies if the Deputy was here because he may not have been.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: The Department has clarified that it does not have a table to compare in respect of the €697 million. My understanding is that when it comes to PPE, the €118 million is broadly what was provided for and what will be spent. However-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: If I could just finish this point, what the Deputy is asking for, very understandably, is how that €697 million breaks out. The Department does not have that here today.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It has agreed it will send it on in tabular form in order that the committee can have a look at it piece by piece.