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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: Is the Minister is saying today that the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council, SIAC, has run its course? The Minister has not asked the members to stay on, so it has clearly run its course. The advisory committee for the implementation of Sláintecare has run its course. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Minister is talking about some of the issues with Sláintecare, such as the waiting lists. We are talking about 900,000 people on a waiting list. Part of the difficulty in dealing with that will be that Minister will have to buy in private elements. Sláintecare was supposed to be moving towards a one-tier rather than a two-tier system. The difficulty is that most people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Minister might revert with the answers to the other questions. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Deputy. I call Deputy Shortall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Patterson, Mr. Watt and the Minister for attending for what has been a lengthy meeting. I am told that the March for Maternity protesters have asked to meet them. I do not know if they have time to do that. The protesters are gathering outside the gates of Leinster House today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: I appreciate the Minister, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Watt being here today and I thank them for answering our questions. I thank everybody for their helpful contributions.

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: There is common agreement that our childcare system is not fit for purpose. Fees are too high and wages are too low. Childcare in my constituency costs, on average, €217 per week or €870 per month, but costs can be higher or lower in one part of the constituency as compared with another. As stated, childcare costs are equal to that of a mortgage. This motion is about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (5 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the CHO7 area awaiting a special needs assessment. [48158/21]

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Ireland is in an unenviable position of relying on Fianna Fáil to fix the housing crisis that many believe it created. Does anyone really believe the architects of the recession, who drove us off the cliff, will fix the housing crisis? Like every housing plan we have seen from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it is a developers' charter that will pour even more money into the pockets of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Róisín Shortall and Senator Annie Hoey. There is one piece of housekeeping to deal with before I bring in the witnesses. I refer to the draft minutes for the meetings of 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 15 July 2021. Are the draft minutes of our public meetings of 6, 7, 12 and 15 July 2021, the private meetings of 13 and 14 July 2021 and the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses from the HSE, the Department of Health and the Health Products Regulatory Authority to our meeting. They will provide us with an update on the medical cannabis access programme. I welcome from the HSE, Mr. Shaun Flanagan, assistant national director, HSE primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, and Professor Bryan Lynch, consultant paediatric neurologist, Children's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Loud and clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. O'Connor and invite Mr. Flanagan from the HSE to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Flanagan and invite Dr. Nolan from the HPRA to make her opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I will open it up to members. I call Deputy Bernard Durkan, who has come straight from the Dáil Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. Who wishes to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: We are having some IT difficulties. I ask the witnesses to bear with us. We can hear Mr. Flanagan loud and clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Maybe the committee could follow up on that suggestion on monitoring.