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

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to speak in support of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2025, which is a timely and necessary step to strengthen governance, transparency and accountability in our health service. This Bill delivers on a core commitment in the programme for Government to embed productivity and ensure full transparency in how healthcare services are delivered. It recognises that strong,...

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

Marie Sherlock: When I was reading the substance of this Bill today, my overriding sense of it was that the one consistent feature of the health service over the past 20 years is change. Since the Health Act 2004 there has been so much chopping and changing with regard to our health management system. Some of that was out of necessity. There are some very real questions as to the timing of this Bill,...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is both.

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

Marie Sherlock: The answer may be that it is both. When we look at the individual issues within our health service, there are fundamental questions about the operability of, in particular, section 24 into the future. I am looking in particular at budget 2024 announced in October 2023. With the benefit of hindsight, it was a complete work of fiction. The HSE had to come out and effectively out the...

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

Mark Ward: The Bill before us is a Bill of optics to create an illusion that the Government is dealing with a health crisis that it created. It is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic or an old-fashioned three-card trick that moves people from list to list without getting them the necessary treatment at the end of it. I will give the Minister some examples. In 2015, there was an agreement...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree.

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

Mark Ward: -----but rests solely and squarely on the shoulders of Government for not providing public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. I am calling for action now so that no more children fall through the cracks.

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

Cathy Bennett: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil introducing legislation to provide for revised governance and accountability for the HSE is farcical. In effect, the most substantive aspect of governance I see is a chief executive whose grossly substantial salary facilitates their operating as a mudguard for the Minister of the day. Regarding accountability, with scandal after scandal in our health service,...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think anyone has a particular issue with providing corporate governance arrangements and accountability for the HSE. Deputy Cullinane dealt with this from the point of view of the smoke and mirrors we are seeing here. We are not seeing any real change with any of this. It is all well and good to look like the State is getting tough with the HSE about budget failures and overruns,...

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

David Cullinane: On a point of order, will copies of the speech be circulated?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can do that. I might speak to the Deputy about that matter again. Section 19 details the obligations of the Minister for Health, the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality, Deputy Foley, and the HSE in relation to the performance delivery plan, which will replace the service plan. The section also outlines the requirements for the preparation, timeline for submission and...

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

John McGuinness: I thank the Minister. Will she make a copy of her speech available to Members?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will reflect on it.

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

John McGuinness: The Minister will reflect on it.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will certainly give a copy to the Clerk. I made available copies of prepared notes last night which I expressively said I would not depend on, but they were quoted back to me. I need to reflect on how I provide information. This is a technical Bill. That is one thing. I can certainly do that. At the same time, however, this is a matter arising from what happened last night. We can...

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

John McGuinness: It just might help with the debate.

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

David Cullinane: The official notes given by the Minister can be read back to the Minister because those are the notes that are circulated.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As long as that is done accurately.

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

David Cullinane: That is a different matter.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is a different matter, and it is the matter at hand.