Results 81-100 of 561 for speaker:John Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: I apologise for not being able to be here sooner. If I touch on something that was dealt with earlier, the witnesses may give me short shrift and need not go through it again. I have some generic questions. Can the witnesses name one or two critical issues, areas or services that are outside the health services and that have a significant impact on the people about whom they are concerned?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: It need not be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is it that they are not there or that people are not connecting with them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: If they were in the community, they could go to their GPs if they were minded. It is a different dynamic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: I was thinking of something that might not be in the health basket but nonetheless has an impact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)
John Dolan: Dr. Finnerty has made a great recovery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials. I wish Mr. Paul Reid all the best in his new role. If I was to suggest to my daughter that I take a certain initiative, she might reply, "Best of luck with that". I wish Mr. Reid the best of luck way more empathetically. He has a difficult chalice in his hands. I was struck by Mr. Woods' response on dieticians,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Okay. I will come back then and finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I have not done that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I had not finished my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I suggested that people with disabilities might be thinking that Mr. Paul Reid is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's man in the Department of Health. Is Mr. Reid referring to the former Department when he mentions the funders of the health service having trust and confidence in the HSE and that this is a bedrock or foundation from which to progress? My issue is that we now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: As I understand it, the HSE does not have that funding at the moment. It has a deficit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: It does not include that figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The HSE is proceeding with an amount that is €16 million less than what is required to provide the services it provided last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: I am talking about €16 million for the disability services programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is Ms O'Connor talking specifically about young people going into nursing homes or broadly about the disability services programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The State is paying for such persons to be in a nursing home. There is already a significant budget for them, although I will not say whether I consider it to be enough or comment on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: Is the Department or the HSE suggesting I am largely wrong when I say there will be a crisis in the funding of disability services this year? I refer to funding for people currently receiving services, not to mention those outside the door who are seeking them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: The value for money review for the period 2009 to 2012, inclusive, was concluded seven years ago. We went through a recession when the scalpel and filleting knife were taken to everything. I am not against reviews, but while they are in progress, circumstances get worse for people. How much can be learned from a review, given what I have outlined? It could be marginal, although if it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
John Dolan: There is a lack of acknowledgment.