Perhaps unsurprisingly, this issue is the one on which I have received the most correspondence since my election to the House. I have received emails, letters, postcards, telephone calls and messages on social media. I have met hundreds of people, sometimes in Leinster House, but mostly in my constituency and at clinics. I was the… Continue Reading
Sean Kyne TD: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for discussion. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, to the House. I was here this time last year raising a similar issue and thankfully the difficulties were addressed for the parents and children in question. Unfortunately, we… Continue Reading
To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his Department’s work at establishing the Money Follows the Patient model which was proposed to begin in shadow form this year; if the model has begun in all acute hospitals; and if he envisages that the timeframe is such that a full phased implementation… Continue Reading
Up until a few short years ago throwing money at the healthcare system was viewed as the solution to all its challenges and ills. We now know that this approach did not have the desired effect and in reality ignored the root causes of problems in our healthcare system. If there is anything at all… Continue Reading
* To ask the Minister for Health his views that hospital consultant salary levels are out of line with our European neighbours; and his plans to reform this area of expenditure in view of the reform remit of his Department. * To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of the State’s financial… Continue Reading