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

Seán Crowe: It was suggested in some of the documents that there were delays in the review enhancement model for industrial relations. There are big challenges there with recruitment and so on. Are the witnesses looking at changing that whole model, modernising and trying to cut through some of the industrial relations difficulties we have had with some of the unions and so on?

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

Seán Crowe: I need to cut people off because a vote has been called. I apologise. I really appreciate the time and effort people have put in this morning. I thank representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE for their engagement with the committee on the important matter of the implementation of Sláintecare. The committee will continue to engage with the matter of Sláintecare...

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: Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the meetings of 7 and 8 March 2023 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to engage with Mr. Bernard Gloster, the newly appointed CEO of the HSE, to learn about his strategic priorities for the position. I welcome Mr. Gloster and...

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

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. On behalf of the committee, I would like to be associated with those remarks with regard to the interim CEO, Mr. Stephen Mulvany. He was very helpful to the committee in its deliberations during that five-month period. I am going to head straight to members and to lead us off is Senator Kyne.

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: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: In that case pose the question around forward planning rather than specifics about the Cork region.

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

Seán Crowe: I will make a couple of observations. I begin by welcoming the fact that there was an announcement this morning relating to the drug Kaftrio, which is a life-changing drug and one of the issues the committee raised. The committee received a lot of correspondence on it and realised the importance of it being approved. One of the things that came up at the committee was that the slowness...

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

Seán Crowe: The important thing is that we do not plan to fail but many times we do. We plan for now rather than for the future. We need to plan for now and also for the future. Every second week we speak about the crisis in University Hospital Limerick. If we do not put in the number of beds that are clearly needed in the hospital system there we will fail again. If the plan does not cover a...

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

Seán Crowe: I will focus on capacity. Last week the Irish Pharmacy Union came before the committee. Its representatives spoke about a possible role for Irish pharmacists and the fact that polls have suggested they are the most trusted healthcare providers in Ireland. They showed their mettle during the Covid epidemic with regard to vaccinations and more. They spoke about other jurisdictions and the...

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

Seán Crowe: We have not touched on it in the meeting thus far but how important does Mr. Gloster consider the all-Ireland dimension to be in the context of the roll-out of healthcare? We will have it with the national children's hospital and we already have it in oncology and so on. How important is that dimension, particularly for the Border region and the enhancement of population health there? What...

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

Seán Crowe: Disease does not stop at imaginary borders. I thank Mr. Gloster. I very much appreciate him coming in. It is exciting times in terms of the programme he outlined and his priorities in that regard. He can rest assured of the co-operation of the committee. We look forward to working with him. He will shortly be appearing before the committee to discuss Sláintecare. I look forward to...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The core problem is the failure of successive Governments to deliver an adequate supply of social and affordable homes. We can all agree that the housing crisis is devastating lives across the State as people cannot afford sky-high rents or find suitable accommodation. That is because of the failure of successive Governments to take steps to deal with the crisis. That is the situation we...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to regulate the sale of nitrous oxide gas by prohibiting its sale in a reusable cylinder or disposable cartridge to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years and for that purpose to amend the Child Care Act 1991 and to provide for related matters. I am introducing the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023. This Bill...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: 1309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sudden unexplained deaths in childhood that have been recorded, per year, for the past ten years; if his Department has conducted any recent research in the area; and what supports are made available to parents after a case of SUDC. [12878/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The format of today's meeting is usually ten minutes for questions and answers for each committee member. If there is time there may be a second round of questions. Apologies have been received from Senators Frances Black and Seán Kyne. Name plates in the committee room were unfortunately unavailable for use due to a technical error so I ask all members to be conscious of this when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Twomey. I will now invite members to discuss matters with the witnesses, starting with Deputy Colm Burke.