Results 161-180 of 2,216 for speaker:Marie Sherlock
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Is the Secretary General confident across all disciplines, including obstetrics, that the commitment to phase out private practice will be met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Is there a cost implication to these hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Yes. What is that figure? Is the Department confident that its budget fully covers the drop in income?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: The national development plan has been published since we last met. Is the Secretary General confident that the elective hospitals are fully budgeted for within the allocation that was announced this year for the Department of Health?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I do not mean to cut across Mr. Tierney - I totally appreciate what he is saying - but I want to hear about the commitment to the elective hospitals over the next number of years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: So we will not have the sod turned on them by the end of this phase of the national development plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Of course, and we welcome that. To be clear for the public, they will not have their elective hospitals by 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Okay. I want to ask about the maternity hospital. We have heard that only one tender or perhaps two tenders have been submitted for the hospital. I ask Mr. Tierney to confirm or deny that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I want to ask about CHI. I join in the condolences that Mr. Gloster extended to the family of Harvey Morrison Sherratt. I know that you have all been in contact with the family in recent weeks. I want to ask about the announcement today that the board of CHI will be subsumed into the HSE. The HIQA report from the spring of this year-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: -----set out a number of very clear requirements-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: -----for the HSE-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: -----with regard to CHI. Is Mr. Gloster confident that the changes that needed to be made to processes, procedures and, indeed, culture within CHI have been made; that those issues have been resolved; and that it is seamless? Dr. Henry might also wish to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I presume that the 50% of recommendations that have yet to be implemented are the most difficult ones. Can Ms Killeen White go into some detail as to what they are? We need to know this because it is really important to restore people's confidence in CHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Do we have any idea of when the Nayagam report will be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Sure. Obviously there is a huge amount of focus on productivity within hospitals-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: -----and that is to be welcomed. There is also a focus on consultants, and evening and weekend working. That is all very welcome. I want to ask about the focus on the allied health professionals. What assessment of suppressed roles has been undertaken by the HSE? I ask because we had overhiring in some departments and underhiring in some departments. Also, some parts of the health...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I know.