Results 841-860 of 1,061,146 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Josepha Madigan OR speaker:Simon Coveney OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Róisín Shortall OR speaker:Pearse Doherty)
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Mark Ward: We support this Bill because it provides for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety. We need to bring the health service into the 21st century in order to improve productivity, efficiency and value for money and properly hold the system to account. It is 2024, and the fact we do not have an integrated IT system across the HSE is a damning...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be very familiar with some of the commentary that has existed for years around the HSE and the health service. The kind of things one hears when in conversation with people is that there is too much administration, there are individuals with clipboards and things like that. Some of that commentary is unfair and maybe people do not necessarily understand that a person with...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I am sharing time with my colleagues. Sinn Féin will support the Bill. This legislation provides, in the main, for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety, bring the health service into the 21st century, improve productivity, efficiency and value for money, and to properly hold the system to account. Accessible patient records are at the...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Thomas Gould: It is important that we discuss this today. It is disappointing, however, that the Taoiseach, Deputy Harris, in his time as Minister for Health did nothing to sanction or secure funding for this. To be fair, Fianna Fáil has not been much better in health but at least this Bill is now being brought forward, towards the end of this Government. Will we see it passed in the light of day...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will follow up on that. When Mr. Conlon furnished that report to the Minister, did he do it in a meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Has he accepted the report, or has he suggested that additional work is carried out on the back of what he has read?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is it. Does Mr. Conlon accept that at a cost of €336,000, the bike shed was a waste of taxpayers' money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Conlon. Does he accept that a cost of €336,000 to the taxpayer for this bike shed was a waste of taxpayers' money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Given that it did not achieve value for money, is it a waste? Mr. Conlon is the Accounting Officer for this agency. He is accountable. Was taxpayers' money wasted, in his view?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: If Mr. Conlon were alerted to the cost of this bike shed at €336,000, would he have continued with the project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Would he have continued with the project, given everything he knows now?