Results 281-300 of 1,051,426 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Katherine Zappone OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Willie O'Dea)
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: Mr. McCallion might touch on the virtual ward system. I think many people get it, particularly as it relates to those specialties. The big concern would be if the person develops complications. Will Mr. McCallion speak to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: There is one other area. We have talked about it before, and it relates to Pathfinder. I think we all got that it keeps elderly people in particular out of emergency departments. It made more than 10,000 call outs between January and April of this year alone. It makes sense in the context of the number of acute beds and so on. I submitted a parliamentary question in May and was informed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: There was a cut in non-rostered ambulance cover. I am concerned as to whether that will impact on this service. The worry is that if something happens to a person in Tralee and the ambulance is on call in Killarney, it will take a long time for that person to receive assistance. How will this affect the Pathfinder programme? The fact that it is not part of the service plan raises...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: If we are not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: It is common belief among all parties and none that this is clearly a key component if we are talking about saving money. The fact that we are not valuing it by funding it or putting it in our plans for the future is a mistake and a retrograde step. That may be something that can be looked at. I am going to move back to members now. I call Deputy Durkan, who might give us a few...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: I am conscious that we got a briefing. The committee asked for an update on this and it is on the system there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: I call David Cullinane. I will take Róisín Shortall then, and I presume John Lahart is looking in. Is five minutes each okay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: Yes, I know, but I did not know John was coming in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I will start; we will not waste any time. As regards the productivity and savings task force action plan that was published, one of the areas that was key to identifying savings was agency spend - overtime, obviously. As part of the pay and numbers strategy that was published, there were a number of pillars to it setting a ceiling for staff recruitment. The ceiling is too low. We have had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: What progress are we making? My partner is a nurse looking for extra hours in the public system, by the way, and she cannot get them. Her only option was to use the agency which was not what she wanted to do. There are a lot of nurses in the same position. The HSE has set a target for itself which is to achieve savings. I am not sure we are anywhere near that target or will achieve that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I would say it is more than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Is it about 10,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is a lot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Could Mr. Gloster outline what progress has been made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Some 1,000 staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: There is still a long way to go. If it is somewhere just under 10,000 we have a long road to the travel here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I know, but we should be aiming to convert at least half of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster has answered that one. We have had a number of very good and constructive meetings on the roll out of the regional health areas and in fairness to Mr. O'Connor and his team and Mr. Woods, they have been very helpful in departmental meetings. The regional health areas are going to be a key part of driving reform, productivity, population based budgeting and so on. There has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is what they want. They want to be part of that decision-making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: My last question is to Mr. Watt and I have given him a heads up on this. I refer to publication of the cardiac review. That was commissioned in 2019. I was at a meeting of Oireachtas Members from the south-east region when the Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, who signed off on this, was Minister for Health. I know Covid interrupted it because Professor Nolan was seconded to NPHET. The...