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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a matter in relation to a SUSI grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54024/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are now telling us that it will be at least ten years since the Sláintecare proposals for elective hospitals before the first hospital will be built and operating. Is that not the case? That will be in Galway, and it will be at least ten years. That is just shocking. The proposal was based on the experience in Scotland where a decision was taken by NHS Scotland to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. The last time, when Mr. Watt was in here, he said it would be very shortly, in the coming weeks. He said that in September. When I tried to press him, he said it would probably be just after the budget. Now the Department is saying sometime next year. What is delaying it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has a site been selected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who is in charge of this? The witnesses are all, nearly, the most senior people in the Department. Has the site been selected for one or both of the Dublin hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Hang on a second. Will Mr. Patterson please speak in straightforward language? We were told by the Secretary General that the decision would be taken just after the budget, and Mr. Patterson is saying now that the site selection process is ongoing. What on earth does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: As far as Mr. Patterson is concerned, has the site been selected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We cannot operate on the basis of this kind of doublespeak, with all due respect. We need decisions taken. When we are told something, we need there to be a follow-through on it. For at least a year we have been told that the decision will be taken shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: On these surgical hubs, it was said that the north Dublin one is a turnkey solution. Can somebody explain exactly what that is and where it is going to be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. McCallion saying that the north Dublin one will be an existing building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When will that be announced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is a strong view of all of us that these are not a substitute for elective hospitals. The whole idea of elective hospitals is that they would mirror what happens in the private sector. The sports clinic in Santry is an example. It is a box. It is about volume and getting throughput of patients at speed. That is what the aim is. Why has the HSE not considered purchasing an existing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about the surgical hubs. I am talking about the elective hospitals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has the HSE looked at existing facilities that could be purchased?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It was unlikely to be available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: In recent years, a number of the private hospitals have been in difficulties. We are now in a situation where more public work is being outsourced to private hospitals. It is quite ironic, when the aim was to bring in some of those private hospitals as public facilities. I will move on to the points that were made earlier about theatres closing at 4 o'clock. If that is happening, it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who specifically is looking at what is happening in each of the acute hospitals and ensuring we do not have a situation whereby theatres close at 4 p.m.?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that a HSE team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does it have regular reports on the situation?