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- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The time is up.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The previous Chair told us that because we were running behind schedule, there would be a little flexibility with the time.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I was not aware of that.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There is a dire shortage of dentists and we were told the Minister's response was to put work out to the private sector. That is okay for a short-term stopgap measure. It does not work in the longer term. Will the Minister please try to concentrate on public employees in the public health service? In budget 2022, 21 neurological nursing posts were approved and 13 of those still have...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There is an exemption. They are in disability services.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I have a response to a parliamentary question that tells me the recruitment embargo is preventing them being filled. I got it last week.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Let us talk offline.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, I will give the reply to the Minister. This is a no-brainer. There are 860,000 people with neurological conditions.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
John McGuinness: I will focus on a number of issues that are of concern to me and paint a picture of a health service that is not responsive to the issues being faced by families and individuals. I have raised them a number of times and until such time as the services are delivered, I will not be able to say we have a functioning, efficient health service. That is no reflection on the staff on the front...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 3 o’clock The Minister received correspondence late last year from more than 80 GPs and more than 20 consultants in County Donegal about their concerns with Letterkenny University Hospital. I know he met with them and heard face to face the serious concerns they had. As part of the correspondence, they revealed to him that Letterkenny is a model 3 hospital, but the reality is...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I will not say I listened with amusement, but I listened with one eyebrow raised to Deputies talking about what happened in 2009. You would nearly think the accident and emergency departments closed themselves when we know it was the Minister's party, Fianna Fáil, that closed them. They did not close on their own, as appears to have been suggested. I also listened to the Minister's...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on Sláintecare. I do not know why it was not entitled Sláintecare and I do not know why the Sinn Féin health spokesperson is trying to rebrand Sláintecare. Its strength is that it is an all-party policy. That is what gives it real effect. I think we should stick with that and be at one with regard to what we are trying to...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I am sharing my time with my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly. I want to acknowledge and support the Minister's words spoke regarding our international workers in our healthcare service. Without them, our health service would cease to function in any way, shape or form. We have all said it before but it is always worth repeating. However, we have massive issues in our health service,...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: It will be no surprise to the Minister what I am going to raise with him. I welcome his announcement last week regarding consideration for a model 3 hospital in the mid-west. It is so obvious. The Mr. Justice Frank Clarke report into Aoife Johnston's passing is imminent. I hope that the former Chief Justice will actually recommend same. I hope that will help the Minister to make such a...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Seán Sherlock: Before I call Deputy Cathal Crowe, we are ahead of schedule because one of the speakers did not show up so there is a little bit of latitude for every speaker who goes over time.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Thank you.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I welcome the announcement that HIQA will examine the possibility of a model 3 hospital in the mid-west region. It is so essential and we have had many private conversations on this. I thank the Minister, over the past 18 months, for meeting with Deputy Willie O'Dea and myself one evening in his office. he came down to Ennis and met with the Friends of Ennis Hospital Committee and he met...