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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----to make things better and they are succeeding. That does not suit everybody. There are some people in this Chamber who want the public to believe we live in a failed state and that everything in healthcare is terrible. Everything in healthcare is not terrible. Things are getting better every year and every month. Are there parts of our healthcare service that do not work for...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: Cataracts.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but just this week, after years of work, we were able to announce really important progress on children's spinal services. We were able to announce that this year, the number of children waiting more than four months will fall from 86 to 20. I fully accept that it is still 20 too many, but we have gone from 86 to 20 in one year and all 20 of them in consultation with their surgeons...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Why does the Government not have an inquiry?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The improvements I am talking about have been achieved by our healthcare professionals and I acknowledge that. We rightly spend a lot of time talking about hospital-based care but look at what has happened in community-based care, again as called for under Sláintecare. My constituency does not have a big hospital. We do not have a model 3 or model 4 hospital but in my time, I have...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: What about west Cork and Kerry?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: What about Kerry?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Children who were referred to specialist care-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: Are we all right? Are we to go blind, is it?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the Deputies do not like the truth.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: Shame on the Government.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the truth does not suit them.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is not telling the truth. He closed down the unit in Tralee.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: On a point of order, I am telling the truth.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will suspend the House if Deputies do not have a bit of manners.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We will not listen to rubbish.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let the Minister reply.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democracy may not suit the Deputies and the truth may not suit them-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: If the Minister comes to Cork, I will take him for a spin and he can meet the people.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but our healthcare workers have reduced the waiting times for children in Dublin and other areas from two to three years to six weeks.