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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)

Róisín Shortall: I join the Cathaoirleach in thanking Ray Mitchell for all of his work in supporting the committee and supporting Oireachtas Members generally. I wish him very well in his future endeavours. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for their presentations. Does the productivity and savings task force include the area of value for money specifically? It is strange that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: You would despair, though. It beggars belief that at this stage we do not have an integrated financial management system for a spend of €23 billion. I am not blaming the HSE for that. It should have been funded by the Department of Health and by the Department of public expenditure. I raise a question with the Department about making the case for an adequate health budget. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Did Mr. Watt put forward a specific figure to cover the demographic costs?

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...

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...