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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Can Ms Breathnach give us an indication of the envisaged budget for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Another consideration SIPTU had concerned the time limit for the historical employer-deemed insolvent application. It recommends extending the time limit to six years. Does Ms Breathnach have a view on that? Has she seen that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Maybe a compromise can be reached in this regard. The current time limit proposed is two years, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Maybe a compromise can be reached to extend it to three or four years. How many employees does Ms Breathnach envisage will be impacted and benefit from this new measure per annum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I want to get back to the €600 cap. I have seen some stuff from SIPTU, for instance, where it talks about awards from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Labour Court. It reckons that the reason the salary cap awards are disproportionate compared to other such awards is that when one applies for the awards, it is because it was not the intention of the Act that it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I thank Ms Breathnach and the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for giving of their time so readily. How do we compare with the rest of Europe in terms of ability to detect, diagnose and treat? That is my first question. Who is the best in Europe? Who is the worst?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: For instance, whose services should we try to match in order to improve our standards? Who is the best out there, even with the limited information we have available? Who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: How are patients identified? For example, can a patient living in Donegal, Kerry or the midlands rest assured that he or she will be detected on time and with sufficient scope for treatment and recovery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What is the best way to set about providing the data that would be helpful in dealing with this situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is that being set up at present? Can it be set up at present? Is it being encouraged? Is the ICS encouraging it or can it do so through the hospital system, GPs and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is there a deficit in that area that is identifiable now, and within what timespan is it possible to address the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We need a strategy somewhat like the national cancer strategy of some years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: As regards women's health, Professor McKeown mentioned that this apparently applies throughout Europe as well in terms of danger of heart attacks, cardiovascular failure, etc. What is being done in Europe now to address that issue, and what is being done here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Professor McKeown mentioned a treatment that is restricted at the moment. Why is it restricted? What is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Could we have a comparison done between the older drug and its effectiveness and the new drug, and could we avail of that for the committee, Chairman? I think it would be useful, and it could be used further. Is that possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I have a very short time left. Obviously a strategy is required. Within that strategy certain items, such as the availability of particular drugs that are effective, need to identified. The thing that comes to mind also is there are a number of people who are in danger of heart failure but do not know it for some unknown reason, so the degree to which the services are available for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I will ask a few questions about the embargo on recruitment and the impact it has had. It is denied that there was an embargo. What is the number of vacancies that were available when the embargo was not in operation? How many deserving posts were being and were filled at that time? What is the total number of people recruited into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There has been difficulty in areas such as speech and language therapy going back years. Is it getting worse or is it being improved in any fashion at all? For example, there was no maternity leave for speech and language providers. Is maternity leave now provided for, with a person available to drop in to cover for the leave period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On the €79,493,000 spent on private consultancy firms for strategic planning and business improvement which, if not spent there, would fund 1,865 therapy posts, 2,354 medical secretary posts or 1,334 psychology posts, how is that measured? Was the consultancy work required, would it have had to be provided in-house, or was it subcontracted out to people with expertise in that area,...