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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: What it means is we have the agenda filled up to December. After then we need to prioritise who we bring in. We are not ruling anyone out at this stage. We will be bringing the the IPU when we discuss supply and pricing of medicines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The clerk has already been in touch trying to get witnesses for that meeting. I imagine we all collectively agree that it has to be a priority. There are also the questions of uptake, prioritisation of medical assessment and plans for procurement and distribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It should be. I am trying to be as relaxed as possible with the members but I am conscious of it. In future, I will try to be stricter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I would like to welcome our witnesses from Children's Health Ireland and from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. They will be presenting remotely to us this morning and will provide us with an update on the progress of the building of the new national children's hospital. I welcome from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Mr. David Gunning, chief officer,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We hope to take the board up on that offer. I invite Ms Eilish Hardiman from Children's Health Ireland, who is very welcome to the committee, to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: There were plenty of questions there. I ask the witnesses to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Could Mr. Gunning give a written reply to the committee? It might give him a chance to expand on the questions Deputy Durkan asked. We have run out of time on this session. I am very interested in the Tallaght delay but perhaps someone else will come in with the same question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Cullinane should let the man answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Who is taking that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We have come to the end of this session. Mr. Gunning might think about other things the committee might be able to do. I have a question. Did the board suggest to BAM that it should apply for the Government Covid-19 support payment? Was that ever discussed with the contractor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: That is helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Will the witnesses give an example of a claim that went through the process, the evaluation of the claim, the assessment by the board and the outcome of conciliation from the original sum or percentage? I know that we are drifting into Committee of Public Accounts stuff here, but people at home would be interested in knowing how successful the claims have been. Will the witnesses give the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Gunning has given us a sense of what the claims are about. I call Deputy Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: What time does the work start in the morning? The reason I ask is I am conscious there are a lot of residents surrounding the site and one of the complaints that many residents associations in the area have is that the site is worked on early. I presume it is the contractor trying to make up time. Do the witnesses have any idea what is the official start time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It was said earlier that prior to Covid there seemed to be a delay in the roll-out of the project itself. This was my sense because I travelled in and out of St. James's Hospital for about 38 days and there did not seem to be a huge amount of activity on the site. This is just anecdotal evidence. There was a lot of concern in the media at that time. Was that helpful? There was a "Prime...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It would be helpful for the committee to go to the site at some stage. Again, we are still at a loss - I certainly am and I do not know about other members - about what exactly is causing the delay. There seemed to be a delay before Covid. We understand delays during Covid. Are there delays because of subcontractors not being paid by the main contractor? Is this causing some difficulty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will finish on that. My thanks to all the witnesses for their helpful engagement with us this morning. I know some of the questions have been difficult and so on but it was really helpful. We will take up the board on the possible visit, perhaps in the new year. At our next meeting we will meet representatives of the National Public Health Emergency Team to get an update on the...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The misuse of scrambler and quad bikes presents a great danger to people in many of our communities when they are used by children or adults without any level of training, supervision or respect for one's neighbours. I accept that this problem is not occurring in every area but it is a phenomenon that is growing every year. Many of our communities are plagued by the buzzing noise to which...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Tests (12 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific type of testing that will be used at airports; the locations the testing staff will be seconded from; if they will be hired for the purpose; the testing capacity that will be in place by 1 December 2020; the desired optimal testing capacity; the procedures to be put in place for those who fail testing in the airport; and...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: My party, Sinn Féin, has been clear since the Brexit referendum in 2016 that the protection of full and equal access to EU benefits, such as the EU health insurance card, Horizon 2020 research funding and Erasmus programmes are vital in protecting the rights of Irish citizens living in the North of Ireland. It is welcome that the Irish Government has sought to make arrangements in order...