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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...

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

John McGuinness: I ask the Deputy to conclude.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sorry but the Minister needs to get with the programme.

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

Pádraig Rice: I welcome Second Stage of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2025, which regrettably is the first health legislation to be taken on Second Stage since the general election last November. This is one of only two health Bills listed for priority publication yet it was only published last Friday, just shy of the summer recess. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile and modest legislation. To pick up on...

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

Liam Quaide: There is a close relationship between this Bill and the HSE's corporate plan. In the HSE's corporate plan for 2025 to 2027, there is a stated commitment to, "Reduce waiting times for primary care therapies by standardising the management of referrals, waiting lists and discharges." There is no mention of a recruitment drive for services that have been hollowed out by years of recruitment...

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

Joe Neville: Sometimes, I come to the House and I am not exactly sure of the relevance of individual Bills or of what negative point the Opposition might make that day. The Opposition could not make a negative point today because this Bill speaks to the core of something we talk about in the country so often. We talk about money being spent, who spent it, why it was spent, who is to blame and where the...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that the Bill before us will provide for revisions to corporate governance arrangements within the HSE. I welcome this. If ever an agency needed governance reforms, it was the HSE. There have been too many incidents of governance failures at this agency. I refer to the CervicalCheck scandal, which revealed 162 women were not informed about missed abnormalities in their smear...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is a 32% increase in Mayo.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The INMO is telling untruths, then. It is telling untruths, as it says there are not safe staffing levels. You can hold up whatever documents you like, Minister.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is a 32% increase.

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

John McGuinness: Will Members address their remarks through the Chair?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister can hold up whatever document she likes, but I am telling her that there are not enough staff in Mayo University Hospital in the emergency department section to provide safe service there. I am also telling the Minister that it is a deterrent for so many people who want to, and probably need to, go to hospital. They want to do everything to stay out of hospital. Those nurses...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We should have it.

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

Marie Sherlock: There are key questions about how this very good model is consistent with this very political decision to effectively try to make the HSE deal with any cost overruns itself and take corrective measures and to pass the buck on to the HSE for what may be understandable cost overruns into the future. We need to be extremely careful about section 24 of the Bill in particular.