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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sure this will be incredibly useful. Will staff have to undertake training to engage with the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is all in place already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Great, I will keep my fingers crossed. Will Professor McAdam reiterate what region that covers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Does the catchment area cover approximately 400,000 people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Am I correct that the fact we do not collect enough data is not just a problem for health policy and development but also means that we are not first on the list when it comes to research and development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Ireland has a fairly significant pharmaceutical sector so it seems like an obvious one. I imagine that at the EU meeting a lot of it would have been about research and innovation and how we can push forward together across the EU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I think we would all like to see more North-South co-operation. I will move now to the issue of waiting lists. We are dealing with significantly different cohorts across multiple waiting lists. Some people have been referred by a GP, for example, and then we have some people who are experiencing a very specific health crisis. We have talked about it being a matter of days in some cases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Are there waiting lists for cardiac rehabilitation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How is that possible? I acknowledge Professor McAdam has said that staff levels have dropped by two thirds, which seems extraordinary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: With resulting negative impacts on outcomes, I am sure. Regarding the review of cardiac services, in December 2023, the Minister said it was being published in the new year so we are well over time to put a bit of pressure on there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I had intended to ask about what kind of engagement Fórsa has had with the productivity and savings group. For clarity, has Fórsa never been invited to make a submission to it? I know the group has had ten meetings, or at least it has issued the minutes of ten meetings. Has the union never been asked for data on the people it represents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is a missed opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Continuing on the issue of agency staff, I have put a question about this at a number of recent sessions. It is not so much the agency staff who might cover for maternity or sick leave but agency staff who are in effectively full-time, long-term roles. A significant proportion of an outpatient team, for example, might be agency staff. The answers I got indicated the HSE is now undertaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, those job advertisements are going up-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: In Ms Connolly’s estimation, is the number of those advertisements increasing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is where I was heading with the question. Some of those 10,000 agency workers are in genuine posts of one, three or four weeks and filling a gap that does not lend itself to long-term employment, but in Ms Connolly’s estimation from working with people in the sector, what percentage of the 10,000 agency workers should we look to convert to full-time staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am trying to make up some time for the Chair, so I will just ask one more question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I appreciate that point. This committee often discusses the cost to the service, but there is also a personal cost to the workers, who do not enjoy the same rights as the people working beside them in the same jobs. Now that we have technically ended the embargo and are discussing staff ceilings, what is the witnesses’ understanding of the difference between one and the other?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Burke: More than 2,000 people participated in overdose awareness and naloxone administration training in 2023. The work is ongoing in relation to having more people trained in its administration. Regarding availability, more than 6,000 units were given out last year, with 4,000 units distributed by July of this year. It is available where we believe there is a need for it. The international...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)

An Garda Síochána