Results 1-20 of 184 for going forward speaker:Seán Crowe

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...of cancer and cardiac care at Altnagelvin Hospital for people in the region. There are lots of positive things happening there. We all welcome the most recent developments in the North and look forward, in particular, to the Northern Ireland Executive being re-established. Of course, a key component of progress will be the continued roll-out of North-South co-operation in the area of...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have some questions. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, to our meeting. I believe it is her first time attending our meeting and we look forward to it as a committee. We are meeting in the next couple of weeks on health awareness. We look forward to that session. I will do some overviews of some of the challenges within the...

Defective Dwellings Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank my constituency colleague, Deputy Duffy, for bringing forward the Bill. As early as 1977 the Law Reform Commission recognised the gap in legislation and the very real challenges facing home owners who find themselves in a defective property and the challenge in trying to ascertain who is legally liable and where the blame lies, be it the builder, the subcontractor, the architect, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is one of the big issues that families are raising with regard to basic services. If you cannot get an occupational therapist, you are not going to get the toilet, the rails and so on. I apologise to the staff for keeping them over time. I thank the representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE for their continuing engagement with the committee on the important matter of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Crowe: I know there are challenges to go through. On behalf of the committee, I thank the representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board for their latest engagement with the committee in respect of the progress and development of the new national children's hospital. The engagement has brought a focus again to the range of important and ongoing challenges facing the...

Select Committee on Health: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Amendments Nos. 4, 7, 10, 27, 28 and 32 are related and will be discussed together. Rather than going back and forward with the Minister, if members have something to say or questions to ask, we will just ask him to reply in order to speed things up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...we get as Deputies but also because of what Deputy Gino Kenny said about that document that went back ten years or whatever it is. There is clearly a need to review the whole system as we move forward. The big challenge we have as elected representatives is around those people who are in that grey area because they are a handful of euros over the threshold or whatever. The other big...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...difficult to pick up. I get that the current system is not acceptable. The idea of moving from paper to digital and access for researchers to files and so on makes sense. Some of that is going on at present, but not to the extent to which it should be. Highlighting gaps in services also makes sense. I get the eircode idea, even though many of us do not use the eircode. It is probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...forth, etc. Is it envisaged that the systems in the North, which is under the NHS, and our own system will in future allow people to have access? I remember travelling to the US several years ago and discovering that no matter where American veterans are in the world, if they go to a veteran's hospital, they can get their complete files. I presume the idea we are contemplating is that...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am old enough to remember the worst days of the conflict. I knew people who were killed, maimed and imprisoned, with communities and futures destroyed. Individuals or members of a Government or political party who threaten, by their actions or inaction, to bring us back to those days need their heads examined. I was secretary of the Sinn Féin delegation to the Forum for Peace and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...have seen during Covid the new applications that have come through. As I said, we should promote those people who were innovators and who came up with those models during the pandemic. We tend to go outside all the time, but if the talent is in house it should be nurtured, encouraged and moved forward. It would be good if we could come back to that at some stage. There are...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Staffing levels in the health service have been a problem for decades and successive Governments have failed to get to grips with the fundamental issues of recruitment and retention. At the core of these issues is the working conditions our healthcare professionals, in particular nurses and young doctors, are forced to face every day. When gruelling 24-hour shifts or the threat of violent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: These questions are probably more suitable for the other meeting we are going to have. The Deputy is going into detail in relation to the Cork area and Mr. Gloster may not have the detail or may have to backup staff with him today. The idea of today was to give an overall vision of how we see the job moving forward. I think it is a bit unfair for the Deputy to be looking for such detail,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: ..., as the health committee, that we hop every week from one crisis to another in reflecting what is happening within the service. When the new head of the HSE comes before the committee, he is going to outline his views about how things are going to move forward and I am sure many of the members will have questions. I call Senator Black.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: ...that comes from energy companies puts more and more pressure on struggling households. Surely we can all agree on that in the House. The Minister believes that the proposals he is putting forward are sufficient. The argument we are putting forward from this side of the House is that they are not and that he is not doing enough. Many workers and their families are left wondering how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: ...but it is for children all over Ireland and that is very important. At some stage, we may take up the invitation to visit the project again as such visits give us a sense of how it is moving forward. I visited the campus in Tallaght. It is forward-looking and positive work is going on. It is delivering for children, which is the most important thing. I wish the witnesses well in their...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Seán Crowe: ...problem is just getting worse. In the last Daft report, a three-bed house in Dublin 24 that a family might hope to live in was €1,971. This credit is potentially only worth a week's rent to them. If rents go up another 12%, for a family moving into a house down the road next year, fully half of that €500 credit is wiped out in the increase. A tax credit with no control on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Seán Crowe: Before I bring in the next member, I ask Professor Cowan to forward to that winter plan to the committee. We intend to a session on the work plans for the different regions, so the winter plan would be helpful to have. Going by her remarks, I think that there is an open invitation to the Minister for Health to the region.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Seán Crowe: ...? We have had representatives of other hospital groups and hospitals in and they have been quite innovative in some of the responses. There is one hospital in the Dublin area that has experts going out in the ambulance service, particularly for dealing with older people. We have heard tales of the errors in beds. That is one example. We have not touched on the issue of step-down...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Seán Crowe: ...number. We do no know how many are sharing box rooms or sitting rooms at night, with their parents, in homes of other family members, or just staying with mammy's or daddy's friends. This Government has been in power for two years. Fine Gael has been in power for 11 long years. Under the combined rule of these parties, rents, house prices and homelessness have all skyrocketed. None...