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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It is €362 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: No. It is the full cost-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It includes integration and commissioning, IT, the electronic health records and a contingency element. One of the many agents that will be involved in this process will be Newpark Healthcare. A very large workforce is involved in this commissioning process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It has not been done in 20 or 25 years. Yes, the agent we just talked about is the international expertise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Which one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In my world, the Senator will have to narrow the reference down a bit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the Senator asking about the early access? That is part of the engagement that is going on but BAM has committed to facilitating it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There is contingency within the commissioning budget.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: At the outset, I would like to offer my condolences to the Chair. I did not know John Naughten, but from everything I have heard in recent days, it is obvious that his parting will not only be a huge loss to his friends and his family but to the wider community as well. I thank the committee for its invitation to discuss the review of the rural social scheme. I am accompanied by Mr. Tony...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The Deputy made a few points that I will come back on. Regarding the ratio of people with children on the scheme then and now, we have looked into this. We are able to ascertain who we have now, but we have not been able to get the comparative figures for before, when the rules were different. My understanding is, though, that if we were to operate on the previous rules, it would increase...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I do not want to get knotted up in a hypothetical case but in that situation Senator Murphy would be entitled to a range of payments in respect his family members as well. On what the Deputy presented there, we would not be comparing like with like. I agree with the Deputy on value for money. It is extraordinary that not only those on RSS but people on CE and Tús come out every week...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: On the last point, there is an entitlement to stay on after 60, subject to means tests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: It is gone. The six-year rule is gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: We will have a look for the comparative figures again, but we had difficulty. I asked about this. There was difficulty finding figures we have now to compare, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I have current ones here for farm assist and jobseeker's. I am not sure if these are the ones the Deputy is looking for, but 46% of people on RSS are on farm assist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: It is doable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: In the next fortnight.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: While the Senator was speaking, I was trying to clarify the parameters.