Results 16,561-16,580 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will ask the official to revert on the €6.9 million and the reporting from the HSE versus the €130 million. As the Deputy will be aware, the HSE has hired significantly fewer staff than was provisioned for-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: With respect, it is all part of an estimated increase in patient activity.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I am not.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I am not telling the Deputy that. It is stand-alone. What I am saying is that, while some of it has been used, there is a shortfall, as we are aware, because the total amount of hoped-for additional activity within the HSE, which includes overtime, weekend sessions, theatres working longer, all of the things the access to care fund is for, and the additional full-time staff will be less at...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: We were asked to come here last Thursday. Today is only Wednesday. The officials stopped what they were doing and worked through the weekend to provide the notes. I offered previously to come back. I have been a member of committees for many years. Deputy Durkan and I sat on the Oireachtas Committee on Health for many years together and I have had exactly the frustrations the Deputy has...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: First, the State Claims Agency is saying at this point that the costs relating to the damages payments are going up. The next question is what that means. It is identifying those as being the driver for this year and generally for previous years. It is saying that damages payments account for approximately two thirds of the total costs of the claims. Therefore, approximately two thirds is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It will not surprise the Deputy to hear that I disagree entirely with her representation of this meeting. I will state again clearly that the first I was aware, and the first the finance officials who prepare the documentation were aware, of an invite to appear before this committee was Thursday. That is not my view; that is just a fact. There may be more to it in terms of other...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy the exact dates. I raised it with the HSE initially several months ago.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Going back to the Covid recognition payment, the information I have is that at the start of November, funding application packs were sent to just over 750 organisations.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: It was done at the start of November.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: As I said, I was not satisfied with the time it was taking for the payment to issue to staff in private facilities. I intervened and asked for a different approach.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I intervened previously. As the Deputy will appreciate, the HSE took time to put this new process together and it then sent out the information packs to 440 nursing homes and hospices, 94 section 39 disability organisations, 87 agency organisations-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: -----and 133 home care organisations.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: On the financial management system, significant resources have been allocated by the Government and are being applied. Good progress is now being made and the first area is due to go live next summer. For all areas of the HSE, the section 38 organisations and the large section 39 providers, the plan is that they will go live by 2025, which will represent 80% of total health spend.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: We will get that figure for the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: An additional €90 million is allocated.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: A very large amount of money is allocated for it in this year's budget.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: That is specifically for cybersecurity, in response to the cyberattack.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: I might come back with a note on this. I am not trying to avoid the question but it is not something we prepared for as part of the discussion on the Supplementary Estimate. I will ask the Department to revert to the committee with a note.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Stephen Donnelly: Yes, it is.