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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is probably important to we remind ourselves that there was so much that worked during the pandemic. Dr. Burke mentioned some of the innovative things, such as the GP diagnostics and so on, but there was much that did not work or deliver. There was talk about a single-tier health system, but we know that private beds were not fully utilised. Was there a pushback within the system, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Did it highlight a lack of flexibility within the service, that we did not fully utilise? We are still dealing with the waiting lists, such as those mentioned at the start. Some 900,000 people are waiting for appointments and 200,000 are waiting for scans. Much of that could have been done by utilising those beds, even though the health system was trying to save them for the awful day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We made the appeal for medical people to come home and get involved in the system. Many of them said they were not contacted. The system failed those people. They wished to get involved. You can only make those appeals so many times before they stop having an impact. It is a bit like clapping front-line workers. We said we would deliver childcare for them. That did not happen in most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: One example of what frustrates elected representatives the most is when families try to get an assessment for children with special needs and, it is hoped, the supports will come. However, the team does not have the key people, it does not happen and people move to the private system to get an assessment. When they have the assessment, they think they will get the supports, but that does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Many of us remember the old health boards. People ask if RHAs will mean the same again. We discussed the importance in establishing RHAs of accountability so that it is not Paul Reid, Mr. Gloster or whoever who comes in and defends the situation by saying the system has collapsed in Sligo, Galway, Limerick or wherever else, but the CEOs of the regional authorities. Do the witnesses agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Committee on Health has members who feel strongly about it but we do not have the resources to drive this forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The private route to reducing waiting lists is short term. It is a contradiction then. We need to build capacity in the service itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: This morning's discussion was very useful and will certainly help us with our deliberations on the roll-out of Sláintecare. The committee will try to follow up on some of the points made, particularly with regard to the five pieces of legislation that form the pillars to hold this up. We may be able to find out what is happening there and whether any work is being done in that regard....

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The chief fire officer for Dublin Fire Brigade told the Joint Committee on Health last week that the combined resources of the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade cannot meet current ambulance demands in Dublin city and county. I sat through the meeting so I know what he actually said, which seems at odds with what the Minister was saying. You would think that would be a wake-up call for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senator Frances Black. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 14 and 15 February 2023 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to meet the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade to consider issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: On that point, is the committee right to go to Dublin City Council and the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: When it comes to this report, I do not think that is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I would like to be associated with those remarks. Both services save people's lives every day. As part of that, many of their staff must see horrific scenes that they must bring home with them at night. I am aware of an incident in my constituency. The responders, who included ambulance service staff, are still dealing with what they saw that day. We are conscious of the risks the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Morton might comment on the age profile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: What is the average age of the members of the Dublin Fire Brigade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is the case right across the services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: A comment was made about people not contacting their GP or going through that route and, instead, calling the emergency services and that there is an increase in that. The acting CEO of the HSE was before the committee and he said there is a belief among some sections of the population that if someone rings 999 and he or she is picked up by an ambulance, he or she will get into the hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have had people in here to discuss the winter plan. Additional moneys were made available for the winter plan, including €7 million for the pathfinder projects, which our guests have talked about this morning. I think we all accept that the allocation is a welcome development and the more we can spread that across the State the better. Has the initiative had an impact on hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have dealt with this funding issue before, whereby funding, which was allocated and put towards the winter plan, has not been spent. I welcome the fact that this money has been spent.