Results 101-120 of 5,737 for speaker:Martin Conway

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I would like to hear from Mr. Watt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: We know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: Has the Minister asked Mr. Watt whether there was any way around the tendering situation to try to move this forward by a year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: How come it could be done during the pandemic? How come there could be exemptions during the pandemic and there cannot be now, even though there are over 100 people on trolleys every day of the week in UHL?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: Who is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I totally appreciate that people are doing their best but I have a duty to ask the questions on behalf of the people of the mid-west, as difficult as they may be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I was going to talk about the intellectual property side of it. There was an issue but Deputy Shortall has it well covered. Has the Department had any engagement with any pharmaceutical companies, given that so many of the big ones have their European headquarters here? Has the Department sought any guidance or been influenced in any way by them in its negotiations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I am asking the question in a positive way because I feel they potentially have much to offer. When this is agreed, what are we bound by? If we are not bound by lockdowns, closing borders and so on, what does Mr. Hanly envisage that we would be bound by?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Martin Conway: That is great. I thank the Chair.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I know that the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary is taking this on behalf of the Minister for Health but I also know he will be well aware of the ongoing challenges and issues with healthcare in the mid-west. I have not tabled this Commencement Matter to look for a 24-hour consultant-led emergency department at Ennis Hospital. In the engagement the health committee had recently with all...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State for his fairly detailed reply. The small hospitals framework is something that I very much support and welcome. I would like to see services scaled up much quicker than is currently the case. In the of previous Commencement matters I tabled, I was told that the dialysis unit would be operational by the end of 2023, and certainly by quarter 1 or 2 of 2024. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Martin Conway: It is great to see the Acting Leader, Senator Currie, in the hot seat. I say, "Well done" to her. I listened carefully to Senator Keogan's contribution. I would argue that our international and national obligations are not mutually exclusive. We have obligations in both contexts. What I would like to see happen is a resolution of the issues that affect us nationally because that will, by...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I think of a number of areas that we really need to be looking at right now. Senator Gavan and I would agree that we need to start looking at the US military's use of Shannon Airport. As a country, we are better than that. We do not need to be facilitating the refuelling of American army jets and planes in Shannon Airport. I know I am an outlier in Clare in expressing that view. It would...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I do not agree with Senator Mullen's amendment, but as I have said before, we need to be respectful in the language we use here. I consider Senator Mullen as somebody with the height of integrity, as I do the Minister, and surely to God we can have a debate here that is respectful and careful in language. That is all I have to say.

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Martin Conway: The Minister of State is very welcome to Seanad Éireann. He served two terms here with me and we had the same assistant, Marian, working for both of us for a long time. I am delighted for the Minister of State personally and I have no doubt he will bring a wealth of experience to the role, having been an MEP, Senator and TD. It is fitting he is in the House to address this very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank my colleague Deputy Durkan for facilitating me going ahead because I have commitments in the Seanad. I thank the witnesses for being here. The fact they have been here three times during the lifetime of this particular health committee amplifies the commitment this committee has to advancing oral healthcare and dental care in this country. We are as frustrated as anybody else and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Martin Conway: Mr. Hourihan indicated that Dr. Rymer left the scheme recently. How recently did he do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Martin Conway: I move on to the issue of graduate dentists. Are dentists moving abroad after graduating in similar numbers to graduate doctors and nurses? Have the witnesses identified that as a significant problem? Are many dentists returning to Ireland after going abroad following graduation?