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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. On the pay and numbers strategy, that has been authorised, so there should be no issue with it being published. It comes to a little over 1,800 new posts and we are seeking mechanisms to fully roll out safe staffing through agency conversion as well. The net impact will be about 2,300 staff and more staff will be announced as part of the additional €92 million...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We have a growing population and demand in healthcare has increased. When we talked a number of times last year about the deficit that existed in healthcare, the Minister and officials in the Department of Health and the HSE cited two reasons for that, namely, health inflation and increases in demand for services, and the Minister rightly said we were not going to turn away patients....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The context for this is important. The Deputy quite rightly referred to the increase in healthcare demand. We have had an unprecedented increase in the number of healthcare workers as well. There has been a pretty extraordinary 24% increase in our health and social care workforce in the lifetime of this Government, or nearly 29,000 more healthcare professionals working in the health...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: It is not a coarse measure; it is the wrong measure. It simply is wrong and I think Deputy Donnelly knows that as Minister for Health. We cannot seek to improve services in the healthcare system if a recruitment embargo is in place. The Minister cited the exemptions, which I accept are in place for final-year graduate nurses and hospital consultants, but all the other posts are not exempt....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The embargo is simply a mechanism that was required for an organisation that was hiring staff it had no money or sanction to hire. If a school principal started hiring teachers he or she had no money to hire, the school would be told immediately to stop hiring because it had no sanction to hire the teachers and no funding had been allocated for their salaries. The school would be told it...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We are training these people.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----to stop hiring teachers, and it is the same in this case. Unfortunately, we had a deeply frustrating situation where the HSE had hired thousands of people. The central controls within the HSE failed. The HSE, as soon as it saw it was coming anywhere near its funded target for the year, should have identified that. Had it done that, no such measure would have been required. I...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Pearse Doherty on Tuesday, 30 April 2024:
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: -(Minister for Finance)
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion regarding petrol and diesel excise rate increases. On Tuesday, 30 April 2024, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 71; Níl, 57; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Amendment declared carried.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." The Dáil divided: Tá, 70; Níl, 55; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Question declared carried.
- European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
- European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Carol Nolan on Wednesday, 1 May 2024:
- European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: