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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive (23 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Good. Deputy Durkan talked about gaps in the vaccine roll-out. The last time the witnesses were before the committee one gap was people who are housebound. I think the figure given was that about 200 people were housebound at that time. We were told the ambulance service was handling call-outs and vaccinations but there were logistical difficulties. Is that resolved at this stage, do the...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Government intends to raise the pension age to 67 from next year. Forcing people to work for years longer when they were planning and expecting to retire is wrong. It is even more wrong because those of us in this Parliament who are making these decisions and forcing them on people are not being asked to do the same. In 2028, the Government intends to raise the pension age to 68. This...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: I was recently informed by the HSE that CHO 7, which includes my constituency, Dublin South-West, the waiting time for speech and language therapy was at 38 months. Occupational therapy was at 27 months and a psychological assessment was 32 months. The Tánaiste will probably recall that I raised this issue in the previous Dáil and in this Dáil. We appear to have a broken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Cullinane, Cathal Crowe and Gino Kenny. Deputy Martin Browne will be substituting for Deputy Cullinane. Before we commence our formal proceedings, I need to address an issue of committee housekeeping. The draft minutes for the meetings of 1 June and 2 June have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome our witnesses to this meeting. They will provide us with an update on the implementation of Sláintecare. I should also mention that the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy and Action Plan 2021-2023 was published last month and makes for interesting reading. I welcome, from the Sláintecare programme implementation office in the Department of Health, Ms Laura Magahy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Can Ms Magahy share her screen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: We will try to sort that out. Does Ms Magahy wish to continue or is she keen to have the slides?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: That is no problem. I think Ms Magahy should be able to share her screen now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: We seem to have lost sound from Ms Magahy. Is she muted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Please do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Does anyone else on the team have the slides?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Can Ms Magahy leave, come back into the meeting and see if it works? We have been having problems with Teams for the past number of meetings, so we hope we will be able to sort it out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: We can do that. I think Ms Treleaven is in now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: That would be the sensible thing to do. We will suspend and see if we can sort out the IT problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: I ask Ms Magahy to continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: We are not seeing the slides. We can only see Ms Treleaven.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: Some of us are seeing slides and some are not. Will we continue? Hopefully, people who are watching at home can see the slides.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Magahy. I again apologise for the technical hitches that interfered with the meeting today. We usually have ten minute and seven minute slots, but I ask members to curtail themselves to eight minutes and six minutes, respectively, if that is possible. We will try to make up time. If there is a chance, I will try to bring members back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy is out of time. The next contributor is Deputy Martin Browne.