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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Haughey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations this morning and for the work they have done since that fateful vote on 23 June 2016.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Haughey: This committee obviously has engaged with every aspect of Brexit right up to today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Haughey: We did our bit, with the various ministers, civil society groups and so forth. Obviously, the main objective was no hard border on the island of Ireland and that has been achieved. We engaged many times with Maroš Šefovi. He was ecstatic at the last meeting we had with him when the Windsor Framework was agreed. He was very happy that a good day's work had been done. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Haughey: Yes. I have another comment in relation to Northern Ireland having the best of all possible worlds, access to both the UK internal market and the EU's Single Market. We take on board the point made that not enough is being done to attract investment or to highlight the advantages of the Windsor Framework from the point of view of investing in Northern Ireland. That point is well made. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Haughey: That is good to know
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Good morning everyone. A lot of what Ms Ní Sheaghdha has said seems to be black and white, and it should be straightforward, where decisions were made and undertakings were given. With regard to the judgment or ruling from the WRC in May, what exactly did it say with regard to recalibrating the numbers, and did it instruct that this should be done within a certain timeline?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Was there an acceptance from the HSE that those figures were right? It was not denying the fact that it used the wrong figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, so it accepts that there is a need for recalibration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Does Ms Ní Sheaghdha know what happened the €150 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Was that an allocation made by the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, and that has not been implemented. That is another interesting question for us to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, okay. With regard to the safe staffing framework, what are the implementation arrangements for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. Is there an oversight mechanism for that implementation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: In the context of the figures relating to the unfilled posts required under the safe staffing framework, is there a schedule of unfilled posts across various services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: So much for a move to the community.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. On radiation therapists, it was said that there are four closed cancer treatment machines and three CT scanners are currently closed. This committee had a prolonged discussion with the HSE some weeks ago about the need to max out all of the expensive equipment and that it makes no sense to leave it idle. What is happening to those patients who are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There is further outsourcing of services that are supposed to be public.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: My understanding is that Trinity College was happy to create additional training or study places. Why did that not go ahead? Was there an issue with clinical placements?