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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: What factor does drug use play? Regarding the prevalence of cocaine, for example, regular use will obviously have a detrimental effect on someone’s health, including the heart. Does Professor McAdam see that in his work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: How prevalent is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: That figure is quite high.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: What about alcohol?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: Most of us would not view air pollution as a factor in heart health, but it is. If people are breathing in these fumes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I thank the members of Fórsa for coming in and for the presentation. I have broad sympathy for many of the points made. I just wish to clarify a few things. Robert Watt was quoted. I was here the day he made that presentation. I can understand why the witnesses would select that quote, but he made many other substantial contributions in terms of trying to not curtail costs, and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I am glad the Cathaoirleach said it. One of the things I would have said, having been a member of this committee for five years, is that while I am not here as an apologist for Bernard Gloster, I found him to be a breath of fresh air to deal with as CEO of the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: That is a question. Fórsa was extremely concerned by reports last week that HSE HR has directed all vacant posts to be switched off on the SAP payroll system. That would alarm me if it is true. Do the witnesses have evidence they can give us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: We are on the record here. That is what I am concerned about. I would like clarification of exactly what that means. How does the SAP payroll system work? Are vacancies visible? Is that what Ms Connolly is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: To drill down more into that, to whom is that data available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: If we tabled a parliamentary question about vacancies in the HSE, would that be a place the HSE would go to and where it should be able to see vacancies? Ms Connolly is saying now that that data has been removed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I am not arguing with Ms Connolly on this. That is alarming if that is the case because if vacancies existed, they are now not visible as existing, so the system is suggesting there are no vacancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: As a member of the committee, though I am not speaking for the committee, I am sure the HSE is watching and if that is true, I am sure the committee wants to hear an account of what that is about. Either the vacancies are visible or they are not. If they are not, why has that happened? The other side of this relates to private contractors. I will let the witnesses come back because I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: The policy choice is to say to the HSE that it can employ 6,000 additional people this year, and the HSE employed 8,500, or that it did not have the budget to employ 2,000 additional staff during Covid, but it employed them, so the Government is going to cover that cost. The Department and Government are saying the HSE cannot continue to employ thousands of people over the budgets it has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: I will probably only use five minutes of my time, as I have to be in the Chamber in five minutes’ time. How likely is it that this situation could end up in a strike?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: It was said in the opening statement that the HSE has not engaged properly. What would a proper engagement look like?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: On strategic planning and business improvement, am I reading the statement correctly that there is a figure of €79 million for a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: What did they spend €79 million on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
Gino Kenny: There is no need to name names but in the second paragraph of the statement, it says that private consultancy firms were involved with this business plan. Do we know the composition of these?