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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Senator Hoey may come in now if she wishes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Cullinane, followed by Deputies Burke and Healy-Rae.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I think you are drifting off the issue. The discussion is on nursing home charges, but I will leave it up to the Secretary General whether he wishes to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for coming in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Maybe we can have one last question. I apologise; some members are taking part in the Private Members' debate in the Dáil at the moment. The acting CEO of the HSE said last week that the health repayment scheme was not quite closed but largely closed. Mr. Watt spoke about those outstanding cases, of which there are possibly 200. Can he explain what is meant by not quite closed? Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am just trying to sum up. We were talking about three different groups of people. I mentioned the elderly, people with mental health issues and people with disabilities. There could be people who are in all three of those cohorts. There are basically three groups and one got paid. The people who never applied to the scheme because they were advised not to clearly were not paid. Then...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: People are starving and the Minister is sitting there smirking in her corner.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You are smirking. Your speech was full of smirks.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You were smirking and looking down on people. That is all you are good at.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You were smirking at my constituents-----

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: -----and my voters.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: How dare you.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: How dare you.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I apologise, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I never lose my temper in here but I am not going to listen to this nonsense coming from the Minister anymore.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The cost-of-living crisis shows no sign of ending. That is a fact. I do not know what bubble the Minister is living in.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Most constituents who come to me say they are suffering at this stage. A report launched by Barnardos this month shows food poverty is worsening, with one in ten people surveyed forced to use food banks in 2022, while 29% reported skipping meals to ensure their children could eat. Those food banks are not only in Sinn Féin constituencies; they are right across the State. The Ministers...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is insulting. That is insulting to our supporters.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have a terrible history in this State of treating people who have been let down by the failures of Government as opponents, enemies or costly and troublesome problems. Whether it was those who were unfairly charged in nursing homes, those whose lives were destroyed by the hepatitis C bad blood scandal in the 1980s or the small number still alive who suffered the lifelong birth effects of...