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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I appreciate all the good work that has been done on the graduate training programmes and recruitment internationally but I am asking about the here and now and replacing GPs who are moving from one healthcare practice, bringing a GMS panel with them, and that practice being subsumed into a larger practice. Does Mr. Gloster feel there is something fundamentally wrong with not having a...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: The HSE is standing back and saying it is advertising the post and will readvertise it, without any further consultation with the community. The community has a right to know what is happening here.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, with 1,100 patients on a GMS panel.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: He actually accepted a post which was advertised in another healthcare centre.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Well, in this case, it is not. CHO 2 has decided that he will bring the list with him and will subsume it into the larger panel. Does Mr Gloster believe that that is fundamentally right?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, but not in the same healthcare centre. The healthcare centre is 20-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I am just giving Mr. Gloster the distance-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I will follow up on that afterwards. My second question is on the tender process for the national private ambulance service. Can our guests provide an update to the committee on that, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: When was it completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: What is the overall budget which the HSE has set aside for the national private ambulance service?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: In the last remaining minute of my speaking time, a present which continually lands on my doorstep is the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital. Again, the Taoiseach visited the hospital last July with regard to it. There are delays in the submission of the planning application and the design. On the building and estates division within the HSE, has Mr Gloster strengthened that...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Okay. I thank Mr. Gloster.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the R312; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Intercity rail services between Westport and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43083/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of individuals who have benefitted from the help-to-buy scheme in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43084/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the bike-to-work scheme to those who are self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to correspondence received (details supplied); the reason a reply has not issued to date; if this delay to respond is in breach of Departmental protocols and if this correspondence was discussed at the level of Secretary General of his Department. [43248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: 305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reimburse families who have to pay privately for speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, due to a lack of services in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43239/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Minister of State for his response, which is greatly appreciated. However, this sector is in dire straits and demands immediate action. Up to 5,000 health and community workers who play a critical role in our society are on the brink of indefinite strike action from 17 October. While I accept that the 5% pay funding increase was put on the table, it certainly did not go far...