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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Woods. I apologise that I did not welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. I thank her for her attendance. I now call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Send those to the committee, Mr. Reid. Thank you. Does the Minister wish to respond before we move on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Senator Colm Burke will have another opportunity to contribute. I call Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Does the Deputy want to get answers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I will let him back in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Deputy Durkan may ask one more question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Would the Minister like to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: We will now bring in Deputy Murphy O'Mahony and I will then offer a break if people wish to take one. We have been here for two and a half hours. Committee members and our guests can consider that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: We will all need a break after Deputy Murphy O'Mahony.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I am going to offer Deputies and Senators and the witnesses who are in attendance an opportunity to take a break for ten minutes. I suggest that we should come back at 11.45 a.m. Is that okay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Is the Minister happy to take a break?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: We will return in ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: The figures in the Minister's opening statement on the reduction of the number of patients on inpatient waiting lists, which are compiled by the NTPF, are very welcome. They show a fall from 86,000 to 66,000, approximately, over two years. Will the Minister give us a breakdown of how those figures were achieved? Are they people who died on waiting lists, who sought treatment outside the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I have sought the same information at a number of previous committee meetings but unfortunately it never came.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: The Minister might redouble his efforts in providing that information, if he could.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: I left out a category where people are provided with a service through the National Treatment Purchase Fund through either the public or private system. Will the Minister give us a breakdown of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: We have had several meetings about workforce planning. An issue that was raised was the creation of panels for appointments. There is a problem in respect of those panels. I understand that those panels will be concluded next year and that a new panel system will be drawn up. On that issue, I am aware of a speech and language therapist in a hospital who has been approved to move to a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: Will the Minister and his officials contact the committee? What about modular theatres for Ennis?