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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Deputy McDonald is better than that. At least, I thought she was. She is asking me, as a politician, to give a commitment to a child to have an operation regardless of whether a clinician believes that operation to be the best care pathway or not. That is what the Deputy is asking me to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will now take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. It is my pleasure to call Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. The Taoiseach's treatment of children with scoliosis and spina bifida who are waiting for surgery is disgraceful. These children wait in agony for operations that can save and change their lives and the longer they wait, the worse their condition gets. It is a race against the clock and against the child's condition becoming inoperable and the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue. I will say at the outset, as the Ceann Comhairle has said to us before in this House, I am very conscious of discussing clinical details or, indeed, those of us discussing them who are not clinicians. I say that in a general sense but I say it in an important sense because Deputy McDonald asked me to provide operations when, of...
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome you all back. Apologies that the bells did not ring. Members might indulge me for a moment because I am conscious we are facing into an extremely busy parliamentary schedule with a number of very important items of business over the next number of weeks. Before we begin today's session, however, it would be remiss of me as Ceann Comhairle not to make a few remarks on the issue of...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On your bikes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will start by adding my congratulations to Mr. Mitchell, and also by recognising the work that has been completed on the waiting lists, and the effort going into it in the face of increasing demand. I know that is not a small challenge. I want to follow up on the issue of targets and estimated savings but I want to look back a little bit to the recruitment freeze. My first question is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay but we were increasing at a percentage point and we can track that on a graph somewhere, say what the percentage increase was and estimate what the saving was, can we not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: We will come to staffing ceilings in a moment but I expect we would have a sense of what the recruitment freeze did in terms of savings and efficiencies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We can argue whether it is an opportunity cost but we should have a sense of what that number would have been if we had not put the recruitment freeze in place.