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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Lads, please. We are very-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I ask the Minister of State to respond to some of those comments.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State. The overspend this year is €338 million, going on the figures provided, compared to €655 million last year. The Department of Health is getting closer to remaining within budget. Of course, we understand it is a demand-led service and an aging and growing population will place more demands on it. When the new CEO of the HSE took up office in...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: There are specific items in the Estimates. There is the treatment abroad scheme and the cross-border directive process, which are demand-led schemes. There is increased allocation for those, and the treatment abroad scheme is used because people cannot get treatment here in a timely manner so they go to another jurisdiction. It is an area that could be addressed with more efficient service...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: The Minister of State mentioned the €115 million overhang from 2018. Does he anticipate there will be an overhang going into 2020 from 2019?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Could it be €115 million?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: Before I bring in Deputy Durkan again, I want to take up a point Deputy O'Connell made. I refer to the issue of recruitment embargoes or freezes or to the practice of only employing staff within available resources or budget allocations. It can be counter-intuitive that by limiting staff or freezing recruitment, money is saved. Of course money is saved in one budgetary silo but patients...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I will give one example and then I will move back to our members. We had evidence from a consultant a number of weeks ago to the effect that if the number of consultants in rheumatology, for instance, was increased from two to four or from one to two, the waiting list would dramatically drop for that service. I refer to that targeted recruitment, not just recruiting for recruitment's sake....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending this morning.
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (4 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2019: Vote 38 - Health.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in capital or rental terms and the staffing costs to establish and maintain on a yearly basis the payroll shared services centre for the education and training boards in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; if the facility will be operated through central funding only; if not, the alternative funding mechanism to be deployed; and if...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Harty: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a forest aerial fertilisation plan by Coillte in north-east County Clare (details supplied) particularly in relation to spray drift and the possibility of fertiliser entering the water tables via Lough Graney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49877/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: With regard to a meeting we are proposing to have on the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, RCOG, review, we have received a letter from the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Jim Breslin, to say that they would be available to meet the committee on 17 or 18 December.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: Does Deputy Kelly have some comment on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: The committee will carry out scrutiny of this report. If it takes more than one session, we will certainly do that. We are at the mercy of the Department and RCOG regarding when they can come to give evidence. When the representatives come to the committee, we will give them every opportunity, and members will have every opportunity to interrogate the report. If we do not get satisfaction...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: We will also have the Minister before the committee on 11 December.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: Okay. Is that agreed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank the Deputy. I am sure Dr. Scally has a view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: Is that agreed?