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- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: ...next year can be reinvested into new medicines. To give colleagues a sense of that, our medicines budget is at about €3.2 billion. A 0.5% saving would give us €16 million next year for new drugs. The new drugs budget for this year was €18 million. Therefore, a 0.5% saving gets us to broadly what the new drugs budget was for this year. I am having conversations...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Bernard Durkan: ...departments. I spoke previously in the House about delivering a patient to an accident and emergency department. The accident and emergency department was crowded with people who had alcohol and drug addictions. They are correctly entitled to their treatment and should get it. That is the appropriate place in the whatever room is available in that particular institution. However, they...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Peter Fitzpatrick: .... However, the projected population for 2026 was surpassed last year. We are therefore working from out-of-date projections. As in all other sectors, medical inflation is resulting in price increases for contemporary, effective drugs and devices. Bernard Gloster, who runs the HSE, is in a difficult position. The HSE must either put forward a service plan that has an inbuilt deficit or...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Matt Shanahan: ...engagement with section 39 health workers, and the Minister of State's work on children's referral, in particular to CAMHS, and the No Wrong Door strategy. These are all to be welcomed. On the drug strategy the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, spoke about, I point out the important work done in the area of addiction. I highlight Gerry Carroll and Aiséirí in Waterford who...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: ...regard? Being able to get treatment is a life-and-death issue. Like all other Deputies, I received an email concerning one of these patients, who was told there would not be access to the new drug and it would require leaving the jurisdiction to access it. That is not good enough. People are reliant on these drugs as part of their medical intervention. Even Bernard Gloster has said...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Duncan Smith: ...nine days. In summing up, the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, also mentioned that the workers can sometimes be "forgotten in a politically-charged debate". I mentioned the workers in the drugs sector earlier. Those workers were almost forgotten by this Government earlier this week in the section 39, section 10, and section 56, campaign, when it waited until the very last minute...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
David Cullinane: ...we made the decision this Government made to deliberately underfund the health service, with all the consequences - a recruitment embargo in place, beds which are needed and may now not be funded, no new medicines for new drugs - the current Minister would be making exactly the same speech I am making today because he knows that what I am saying is true. It was really regrettable that...
- Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Hildegarde Naughton: ...Health and the HSE will ensure this happens in 2024 and future years. I will turn to developments in the areas for which I am responsible as Minister with responsibility for public health, well-being and the national drugs strategy, outline some of the progress made in recent years and set out some exciting new initiatives under way. Among the best uses of public money in our health...