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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: I will bring in Deputy Gino Kenny, after which we will have a comfort break for five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for the quite upbeat assessments. I will ask Mr. Watt and Mr. Gloster two general questions. Do they envisage any kind of headwinds blowing things off course over the next six months in the context of this assessment? Do they see anything over the next period where things could fluctuate or go off course? It is a general question but I want to get to specifics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: Has anything been put in place to mitigate against that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: In Mr. Gloster's view, how is that progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: Mr. Gloster is happy that is progressing, largely?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: What does that mean in practical terms for somebody who wants to access a service if they are working on a Saturday?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: That will have an effect on people accessing public healthcare and so on. I have another question that I will direct to Mr. Gloster. It relates to private nursing homes essentially going to the wall. There have been a number of cases this year, including Lucan Lodge and a nursing home in Kerry, I believe. They are care providers that have been there for a period and that lost their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: I can imagine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: At a huge cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: At an enormous cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: I acknowledge the human damage this does. You could not put a price on it. Is there a growing trend of care providers leaving the mess to the HSE, at enormous cost, when private care provision is not profitable enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: In how many instances in, say, the past two years has the HSE had to intervene directly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gino Kenny: Ultimately, the HSE has to intervene. We are not arguing against that but it comes at a huge cost, with damage done to the residents. What does the HSE ultimately do? Does the nursing home close down? Can the HSE intervene directly and take over a facility completely, as with Lucan Lodge? Lucan Lodge is a great facility-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: It might be useful for the committee to be sent a breakdown of where people send something if they want to send it back rather than taking up time at this meeting. Most people listening at home would have some sort of equipment they would like to get rid of or return for it to be recycled or reused. I know a number of elderly people who have quite expensive hearing aids sitting in a drawer....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. We will take Senator Maria Byrne when we return just after a comfort break.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: We spoke about productivity and savings. Mr. Gloster mentioned occupational therapists, OTs. Recently, I dealt with a case of an 83-year-old man who is trying to get access to a wheelchair. He needs a referral from an OT. He received a letter stating it will take two years or more to see the OT. He was then given a leaflet about the private purchase of equipment such as rails and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: Again, there was a lot of coverage in the papers regarding children, particularly those with scoliosis and orthopaedic issues. There was a family in touch with me who were a number of weeks in Crumlin hospital waiting on an MRI. There were other supports needed in order to take that MRI, but they were there for weeks. You would think it should not take weeks to get an MRI. I am conscious...
- 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...