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Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Referral to Select Committee (16 Jul 2025)

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Referral to Select Committee (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 103 and 188.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Referral to Select Committee (16 Jul 2025)

Question put and agreed to.

Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees (16 Jul 2025)

Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: The Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 33. The Select Committee on Fisheries and Marine Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year...

Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees (16 Jul 2025)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 5.18 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 5.22 p.m. Sitting suspended at 5.18 p.m. and resumed at 5.22 p.m.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Healy-Rae has helpfully set out the difficulty with regard to hospital beds. Let us take Kerry hospital as an example. In the context of staff numbers, in the past five years, Kerry hospital has had an increase in staff of 43%. It has had a budgetary increase of 67% in the past five years also. To provide the breakdown of that staffing increase, Kerry hospital has had a 52%...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak about this Bill, which deals with very serious matters that affect every community, especially in Kerry. There are many failings and many issues. The Minister has said the HSE's annual service plan is to be replaced with an annual performance delivery plan. An issue I have encountered in this Chamber since I came up here is that, every budget time,...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Today, we are presented with the Health (Amendment) Bill 2025. On the surface, the Bill promises reform, but let us be clear - this is not reform, but bureaucracy dressed up as progress. The Bill does not fix our broken health system. It merely rearranges the furniture in a house that is already on fire. It tinkers with the governance structures while ignoring the real crisis, which is...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: There are 121 people in the HR department in the south west. The Minister talks about progressing this Bill, but I believe it is bluff and smoke and mirrors. It is trying to pretend that there will be proper accountability and value for money in the HSE. Even though 121 people are working in the HR department in the south west, €250,000 was paid to private consultants in 2023. Who...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact that the Minister is looking to tie financial support for the HSE to its performance. It is something that I have made an argument for over the past number of years. I firmly believe that we need to reach a situation where the HSE is paid for the work it does for patients and the benefits it brings to patients. We would probably go further than this and tie funding for...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I also wish to speak in support of this Bill. I will take up from where Deputy Roche left off. We all acknowledge the huge efforts of our front-line workers in every part of the country, and the Deputy is right to pay tribute to them. They work damn hard. Conditions for them all are not great. I have been in hospital myself in the past as a patient and visiting people. One would often...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: You are right.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is not just the Department of Health; it is also the Department of Transport. If we table parliamentary questions to that Department, they are forwarded to the National Transport Authority or Transport Infrastructure Ireland. A large number of agencies have been set up over many decades. The all-important stuff we try to do as TDs gets siphoned off in different directions, and it can...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not on my desk.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Sorry, it is not on the Minister’s desk yet. I apologise. The report to the Minister is imminent and the Cabinet will have to consider it. The report is on emergency healthcare access in the mid-west region. From replies to parliamentary questions that I and others have tabled, I know that initially HIQA was supposed to report to the Minister and then to Cabinet. Now, however, she...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: I support the Second Reading of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2025. The Bill is timely and necessary and fundamentally about one thing: accountability in how we plan, manage and deliver healthcare in Ireland. The central purpose of the legislation is to ensure the Health Service Executive operates under the highest standards of prudent and effective financial management. It replaces the old...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Ann Graves: I acknowledge the staff in our health services. Every one of them should be proud of the excellent service they provide despite the challenges they face every day in our hospitals, healthcare centres and community programmes. The health service is challenged by growing waiting lists, longer waiting times, an undersupply of key workers and low morale. Almost every part of the health service...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will do the easy bit first. I have gone through the Bill and welcome a lot of what is in it. It is welcome that the service plan will be replaced with a performance delivery plan. It is welcome that we will be able to measure things. The Minister for Health is to prepare a strategic direction statement in respect of health service...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

John McGuinness: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for facilitating the time for me to contribute to this Bill. I appreciate his helping me out. When I look at the Bill and see the different approaches being taken to corporate governance and accountability, I am happy to support it. These types of reforms and changes, and a lot more, are necessary. I will go with the content of the Bill but a...