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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is fine. I do not get a sense that the HSE had identified areas where productivity needed to be improved. What sectors or staff categories need to be addressed? How did the HSE tackle that issue? I have a sense that it is a bit of a blur. This brings us back to the fact that it has never been possible to get a clear line of sight of health funding because the data systems were, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It was a political decision that was made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: But that was not adequate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It was not adequate to cover the demographic costs. Would Mr. Watt accept that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Yet IFAC, which criticises the Government all the time for spending too much, said "the health allocation for 2024 [in the budget] is ... [not even] enough to cover [these] demographic and price pressures". Where was the lack of response coming from in terms of ensuring those elements were included in the budget allocation? Was the case not made strongly enough by the Department of Health...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: My final question relates to a particular area that stands out, and the witnesses have identified it themselves, where additional money going is into the hospital sector but the results are not being achieved at the other end. What specifically is the Department doing about that? There is huge money going into the hospital sector. I have put it to Mr. Watt before as to whether a "money...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. O'Connor to give us an example of that, if he does not mind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: On the part of who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is that publicly available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is the last one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank Mr. O'Connor.
- 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?