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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collective citations, construction and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment) and Health (Provision of Menopause Products) Act 2024. (2) The Health Acts 1947 to 2022 and Part 2 (other than section 5) may be cited...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----to make things better and they are succeeding. That does not suit everybody. There are some people in this Chamber who want the public to believe we live in a failed state and that everything in healthcare is terrible. Everything in healthcare is not terrible. Things are getting better every year and every month. Are there parts of our healthcare service that do not work for...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but just this week, after years of work, we were able to announce really important progress on children's spinal services. We were able to announce that this year, the number of children waiting more than four months will fall from 86 to 20. I fully accept that it is still 20 too many, but we have gone from 86 to 20 in one year and all 20 of them in consultation with their surgeons...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The improvements I am talking about have been achieved by our healthcare professionals and I acknowledge that. We rightly spend a lot of time talking about hospital-based care but look at what has happened in community-based care, again as called for under Sláintecare. My constituency does not have a big hospital. We do not have a model 3 or model 4 hospital but in my time, I have...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Children who were referred to specialist care-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the Deputies do not like the truth.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the truth does not suit them.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democracy may not suit the Deputies and the truth may not suit them-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but our healthcare workers have reduced the waiting times for children in Dublin and other areas from two to three years to six weeks.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What about Deputy Michael Collins's own area? He is aware of the really important investment we are putting into Ballincollig. He is aware that we have taken cataract surgery out of Cork University Hospital and put it into South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital and Ballincollig. I fully accept that it is not fixed and that we are not there yet but what you will find-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democratic debate may not suit the Deputy; I fully appreciate that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that parliamentary debate may not suit the Deputy.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the record investment in healthcare in Kerry and Cork does not suit the Deputies' election campaigns-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but it is nonetheless true. No matter how much the Deputies shout at the Government and how many times they come in here with false information, it is a fact.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It may not suit the Deputies that there is record investment. Not for a moment am I suggesting that everything is fixed. Deputies Cullinane and Shortall and others have rightly pointed out that we have several years to go but it is undeniable that our healthcare workers, who have been hired in record numbers, are turning this ship around.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In my constituency and the Deputies' constituencies, they are turning it around.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: They are reducing waiting times and rolling out new services.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputies can shout as much as they like-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but it will not take from the improvements that healthcare workers are making in their constituencies and mine.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 233(2), Standing Order 187 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024, that it has the power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill, in relation to:the Health Act 1970, to provide that HSE Guidelines on "ordinarily...