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Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: The Minister has misspoken a couple of times because he referenced it a couple of times. I have researched it. What date will it open? The second thing is that the community nursing home in Nenagh will be handed back to what it should be used for on the same day. The second thing is that medical assessment units, MAUs, are committed to going to 24 hours. When will that happen? The MAU...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion and giving us an opportunity to discuss this important issue. In all the discussions on budget 2023 and budget 2024, as the Minister knows, I pointed out robustly that the health service was not getting the funding it needed to stand still, that we were running significant deficits, and that at some point, a cheque would have to be written to...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: There is no link between those two things.

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: That recruitment embargo was put in place by the head of the HSE. I did not interrupt the Minister. I have my time. The Minister can dispute what I am saying but it is indisputable. The HSE said there was a need to contain costs. He sent communications to the health service that he was putting in place a recruitment embargo with very limited exceptions relating to final-year nurses and...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: Concerns have been raised with me that vital developmental checks are not being carried out on newborn babies due to a lack of public health nurses. Parents from Clondalkin, Lucan, Newcastle, Rathcoole and Palmerstown have contacted me with these concerns. When a baby is born, developmental checks are carried out at regular intervals from birth and throughout their infancy. A public health...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: This day last week, I attended a protest at Cavan General Hospital. That protest was held by workers from across the hospital, including nurses, clerical workers, porters and healthcare assistants. They were represented by three unions, which were Fórsa, SIPTU and the INMO. The demonstration was held as the first step in opposition to the pay and numbers strategy introduced by the HSE...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I had to grin earlier because, whenever the Minister is in the Chamber, I seem to have to go out to take a phone call about my father's healthcare. The work of the staff in both Limerick and Nenagh, whom I have been dealing with in the past few months again, has been exceptional. I acknowledge Dr. Scott, Dr. Sohail, Dr. Vijay, healthcare assistant Ray, nurse manager Louise, healthcare...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: Seanad Éireann has passed the Social Welfare Bill 2024 without amendment.

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Debate resumed on the following motion: -(Deputy Duncan Smith)

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: "notes that: — this Government recently announced a record €25.8 billion budget for the delivery of health services in 2025, and this represents an increase of over 43 per cent from the €18.1 billion allocated in Budget 2020; — there has...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith who has led for us on this important motion. As Deputy Smith has said, this is the last Labour Party Private Member's motion in the lifetime of this Dáil. It might even be last Private Member's motion. In any case we thought it was vitally important we would put it down on the issue of healthcare and especially healthcare staffing. We...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — understaffing in the public health service is impacting the ability of staff to provide safe care and this will put patients at risk and damage efforts to retain existing staff; — the health recruitment moratorium has continued through new recruitment caps, and positions are being left vacant in acute hospitals and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Deputy Connolly. I will read the script I have been provided and then come back in with some other responses. I wrote to Deputy Connolly last week on foot of a question on policy or legislation to the Taoiseach. The supply of public water and provision of water services in general are matters for Uisce Éireann in the first instance. Uisce Éireann has statutory...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are two siphons under the Corrib and we are saying one of them has been reported as defective.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will ask Uisce Éireann to investigate that. The tankering of sewerage is unacceptable in this day and age. We have a way forward here in terms of the longer-term plan. I mentioned the 2025-29 investment cycle in my response to Deputy Cairns. That will be critically important. We took questions from Deputy Connolly last night on housing development in Galway. This issue will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for his comments. This is of critical importance because the growth of Galway, which I believe should be done in a sustainable way, cannot happen. The population is not growing at the rate expected because of the failure to remediate defective infrastructure. I heard the Minister of State say he will go back to Irish Water. I wish him good luck because Irish Water has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I have outlined the significant progress that has been made by Uisce Éireann in dealing with the deficits in Galway city and the wider area. I was not aware there were two siphons, as Deputy Connolly has said. My understanding from the response I gave the Deputy last week was that one had been addressed. We will ask Uisce Éireann.