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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is a model.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: -----the model of care will be our policy decision on this. The long-term aim is to provide a wide range of services for all people with gender dysphoria, from care locally in the community to more specialised and complex care. The Minister and the HSE are dedicated to building a service based on experience, clinical evidence, respect, inclusiveness and compassion. I know the Minister...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Mother and Baby Homes

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Ag bogadh ar aghaidh go dtí an tSaincheist Thráthúil dheireanach in ainm an Teachta Pat Buckley. The Deputy wishes to discuss the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes. I was a little lenient with the previous speakers because I did not think this matter would come up. I ask the Deputy to stop after two minutes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I raise the issue of the redress schemes for survivors of mother and baby homes. A lot of people, survivors of the mother and baby homes, have been in touch with me. They are extremely frustrated at having missed out on redress measures, whether the so-called enhanced medical card or another part of the redress scheme, because the days they spent living in a home fall short of the 180-day...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank Deputy Buckley for raising this Topical Issue on the mother and baby institutions payment scheme. I will provide an update on the progress with regard to the delivery of this important scheme to survivors and former residents on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. As the Deputy knows, the scheme is the centrepiece of the Government’s action plan for survivors and former...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I appreciate the Minister of State's response. As I said, sometimes no matter how many times we ask questions, we never seem to get the answer but at least there is an option available here. I will go back to the people I have spoken to who will have to call the helpline themselves. I will probably get back to the Minister of State or the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, in writing to state how...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank Deputy Buckley. I will put on record some of the other systems and supports that are in place as it would be good for all Deputies to be aware of them and to promote them to those affected. First, the national centre for research and remembrance is an initiative that will represent a national site of conscience. It will include a museum interpretation experience, a space for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Healthcare Policy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: In 2020, the United Kingdom's National Health Service commissioned a report to optimise healthcare for transgender adolescents but it instead produced the Cass review. For some inexplicable reason, the HSE in Ireland is, by all accounts, undertaking its own review of this report. The report is highly politicised, junk science. It is driven by the UK's culture wars and should be allowed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank Deputy Hourigan for raising this important issue and for her passion, knowledge and commitment to the subject. I am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, who has spoken previously on the topic of gender healthcare. He has acknowledged this is a small and vulnerable group of people who need to have access to proper, appropriate and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. I acknowledge that the Minister has spoken to me about his commitment to ensuring that while we currently have no service for children and adults who are transgender, he is very committed to having one and I have no reason to disbelieve him. I absolutely agree on that. It is important, however, that we pause that review, the reason being that...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and the officials for attending. There are just a couple of things that come to mind. It would appear that a better picture is emerging in the context of funding for health service that will lead to improvements for consumers right across the country. That is to be welcomed. How did the underspends to which the Minister referred come about?...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. The underspends in question, in terms of their description, are misnamed.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There should be an alteration in the description. The Minister has explained that. It should be done in order prevent people being misled and to enable those who may expect the moneys to be sent in their direction to know that this is or is not a possibility. They have to plan as well. In relation to the State Claims Agency and negligence claims, the total allocation of €485...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Have these been quantified? Have the areas where positive changes can be made with obvious beneficial results from the point of view of patients and in the context of the risk and cost to the health service been flagged? To what extent has a breakdown of the €485 million referred to, including legal fees, been obtained and what were the extent of the legal fees involved, if known?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: As a result of action taken.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In terms of a reduction in the number of incidents, how will be able to monitor the extent to which potential catastrophic incidents can arise? What evidence exists which shows that the prevention of incidents is well in hand, as needs to be the case? The follow-on from that is the financial liability. How quickly will we see the effect of and be able to judge the preventative measures...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: All I will say is that this Department specialises in health. Insofar as possible, we need to prevent as many accidents or errors in procedures as possible in every way possible to ensure the money in the health budget is spent on health as opposed to legal fees. I saw something about the OPW. I have had some interaction with the OPW recently. While I cannot find it at the moment, the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Okay. Is the expenditure normal? Has it been tested? The OPW has had a propensity to slightly exaggerate costs.