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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Come on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely is. I was talking to radiation therapists who will be in here later today. They say that despite capital investment in, for example, linear accelerators and scanners in Cork, Galway and St. Luke's, the machines are sitting idle because they do not have enough staff, and that if people leave, there is no guarantee at all that they will be replaced and there is no effort to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: They are not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the health workers. I do not believe the Government. The workers are saying that they are stressed and overworked, that staffing levels are not safe, that patient safety is being endangered and that they are utterly demoralised. The Taoiseach should tell the truth about what is happening in the health service and scrap the pay and numbers strategy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: We will not scrap the pay and numbers strategy because that is how you run the country. You run Government Departments and public services by providing a budget that is voted through this House. That budget then translates into a number of positions in any public service agency and then the agency or the Minister responsible ensures those positions are filled. If it is the position of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting nearer to the truth now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Excuse me, sorry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Mick Barry: They are out to save safe staffing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, will you let the Taoiseach answer?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We do not need to use language in this House about "deceiving" and "gaslighting". I have facts, which I have outlined. The Deputy can tell me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy can wave his sheet of paper, but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my facts from the HSE.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will get another chance in a minute, so it would be appreciated if he could give me a little opportunity to respond. Does he accept that 9,375 additional nurses and midwives are now working in the health service compared with 2020, that there are 4,092 health and social care professionals additional to 2020 or that there are an additional 3,330 doctors and dentists? Those are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the numbers are growing. Our population is growing and the need is growing. Baffling people with figures that are out of context does not tell the real truth. Waiting lists are not falling, according to the hospital consultants the Taoiseach mentioned. They are saying they are going to increase by 11% this year, so we will have 746,000 people waiting for outpatient appointments...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I am kind of baffled by the fact the Deputy thinks it is breaking news - hold the front page - that organisations are given a budget and can employ people within that budget. The budget we have given for the health service allows it to hire 7,500 more people between the end of this year and the end of next year. Last year saw the highest number of staff ever recruited in the history of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the figures from the Government. I got them from the Taoiseach's Minister for Health.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy, will you stop interrupting?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The faux outrage must be utterly exhausting. In St. Michael's Hospital, the Deputy's hospital, as he calls it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach called it that.