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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That issue will not change quickly, unfortunately. We have been looking for the health strategy to be implemented for a long time. Regarding the recent session in Budapest, given the importance of cardiovascular disease and the fact it is the second biggest contributor to mortality, it strikes me, and it is disappointing, that the senior Minister was not there. That is just a comment. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, but what is the split?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I would also add in the commercial determinants of health. We have been doing a lot of work on that and issues related to drinking, smoking, fast food and all of that. There are big commercial pressures brought to bear on government related to that. I think the area of commercial determinants should be included in that because there is those big industries have considerable access to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but at the end of that Professor McAdam is saying only 5% of people have inherited conditions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What does the screening entail? Is it very costly or why is it so underdeveloped?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: For child screening, when or how is that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Could it be included in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I want to pick up on some of the points made about testing diagnostics generally. Are cardiac diagnostic services not included in the new primary care diagnostics initiative, that is, the direct referrals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That makes sense. I completely agree with Dr. Murphy's point that we should be developing our own services within each RHA instead of the outsourcing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It reaches a tipping point then and the public service is always inadequate. I want to go back for a minute to that question of the prescribing of injectable cholesterol-lowering treatments. What is the position? Presumably, we know high cholesterol is very prevalent. What happens if a person is being prescribed that treatment? Does that mean they can eat and drink whatever they like?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: They are only allowed after the event, as it were, and not as a prevention measure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Are there any generic medicines coming on stream any time soon on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is an important issue we may pursue as a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I will pick up on that last point. It is important that we get the full picture. I address this to Deputy Lahart too. We all know that the population is growing and ageing, and the level of dependency is increasing. It is important to bear in mind that the budget allocation to help last year was insufficient. That is not just me saying that; the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council said it when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Turning to the productivity and savings task force, the expectation is that staff would be well represented on a body like that. What was Fórsa's experience of looking for that representation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is incredible. It is very hard to understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is really important that a cost-benefit analysis be carried out on that within different sectors of the health service. There is a view that private healthcare is more efficient, cheaper and so on but, of course, we know that is not the case in the long run. Even so, we need to have the figures on that. On the net point about the data on the number of vacancies at 31 December last...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the representatives.