Results 721-740 of 1,124,472 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Réada Cronin OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Richard Bruton8 OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin OR speaker:Patrick O'Donovan OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Barry Cowen OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Neasa Hourigan OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Gerald Nash OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is not great, given that drug innovation happens. We would like there to be a fairly dynamic response from organisations. I want to go back to the registry's issue. This has come up a number of times in other sectors to do with healthcare and anything that is a long-term condition. In a practical sense, what is the hold-up? What is the problem? Is it that there are different...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Investment in IT-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: There is no structural issue within hospital groups; everyone is perfectly happy to work with that. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am sure this will be incredibly useful. Will staff have to undertake training to engage with the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is all in place already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Great, I will keep my fingers crossed. Will Professor McAdam reiterate what region that covers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Does the catchment area cover approximately 400,000 people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Am I correct that the fact we do not collect enough data is not just a problem for health policy and development but also means that we are not first on the list when it comes to research and development?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Ireland has a fairly significant pharmaceutical sector so it seems like an obvious one. I imagine that at the EU meeting a lot of it would have been about research and innovation and how we can push forward together across the EU.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I think we would all like to see more North-South co-operation. I will move now to the issue of waiting lists. We are dealing with significantly different cohorts across multiple waiting lists. Some people have been referred by a GP, for example, and then we have some people who are experiencing a very specific health crisis. We have talked about it being a matter of days in some cases...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Are there waiting lists for cardiac rehabilitation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How is that possible? I acknowledge Professor McAdam has said that staff levels have dropped by two thirds, which seems extraordinary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: With resulting negative impacts on outcomes, I am sure. Regarding the review of cardiac services, in December 2023, the Minister said it was being published in the new year so we are well over time to put a bit of pressure on there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I had intended to ask about what kind of engagement Fórsa has had with the productivity and savings group. For clarity, has Fórsa never been invited to make a submission to it? I know the group has had ten meetings, or at least it has issued the minutes of ten meetings. Has the union never been asked for data on the people it represents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is a missed opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Continuing on the issue of agency staff, I have put a question about this at a number of recent sessions. It is not so much the agency staff who might cover for maternity or sick leave but agency staff who are in effectively full-time, long-term roles. A significant proportion of an outpatient team, for example, might be agency staff. The answers I got indicated the HSE is now undertaking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, those job advertisements are going up-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In Ms Connolly’s estimation, is the number of those advertisements increasing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is where I was heading with the question. Some of those 10,000 agency workers are in genuine posts of one, three or four weeks and filling a gap that does not lend itself to long-term employment, but in Ms Connolly’s estimation from working with people in the sector, what percentage of the 10,000 agency workers should we look to convert to full-time staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am trying to make up some time for the Chair, so I will just ask one more question.