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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: So much for a move to the community.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. On radiation therapists, it was said that there are four closed cancer treatment machines and three CT scanners are currently closed. This committee had a prolonged discussion with the HSE some weeks ago about the need to max out all of the expensive equipment and that it makes no sense to leave it idle. What is happening to those patients who are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There is further outsourcing of services that are supposed to be public.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: My understanding is that Trinity College was happy to create additional training or study places. Why did that not go ahead? Was there an issue with clinical placements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Trinity was prepared to create those additional places if the tutors were provided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Kelleher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am listening to many other sessions here that it is very hard not to come to the conclusion that there is a very deliberate policy of privatisation at play. I do not know where that is coming from, whether it is at a political level or at a senior level within the Department of Health or the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. The level of outsourcing at the moment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is where privatisation becomes a deliberate policy, if the public service is not funded. Interestingly, during Covid-19, the current Taoiseach, as Minister for Health then, and the previous Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, both said we needed to move to a new model of care for older people. They said the big commercial 200-bed nursing homes that are so sterile needed to change. Nothing has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: In regard to radiation therapists and the recommendation from the review for five tutors, is it now generally accepted now by the Department that there is a need for that number of tutors or is it disputing that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is madness to have valuable machines lying idle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: To finish, will Ms Ní Sheaghdha tell us about the conversion rate? First of all, how many nursing posts are agency posts at the moment? What number is going to be converted this year? We had the chief nursing officer in speaking to us about that. What is the plan for conversion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is the usual thing. Why have a review if you are not going to follow the recommendations? Again, there seems to be a mindset there about outsourcing that is of real concern.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: 10 o’clock I thank the Deputies for their contributions. We share a common interest in changing the market here and this is why we are raising the stamp duty. There were already significant reductions in the instances of bulk buying of apartments on the market and this will further reduce that. Any ones that are going are probably an example of legacy developments. This...
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)
Question put: "That Financial Resolution No. 4 be agreed to". The Dáil divided: Tá, 87; Níl, 52; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)
Tá Cathal Berry, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Seán Canney, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Michael Collins, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan,...
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)
Question declared carried.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (1 Oct 2024)
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (1 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I move: THAT it is expedient to amend the law relating to inland revenue (including value-added tax and excise) and to make further provision in connection with finance.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (1 Oct 2024)
Debate adjourned.