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Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: In this report from the committee, members express dissatisfaction because patients are being moved against their express wishes and Ms O'Donovan is saying they are not.

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Who sat on the HSE safety and quality committee?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: It is not anybody in here or the campaign group.

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Will the HSE guarantee those patients who are not moving that they will be allowed back? I do not want to put words in Ms O'Donovan's mouth but the answer she gave suggests the patients are going to move them in any case. The attitude seems to be that they will be fine wherever they are put and a new cohort will come into Owenacurra centre when it reopens. They will be moved and the HSE...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: St. Brigid's Hospital had three palliative care, two respite and 11 convalescent beds. How many beds are now in place in Tipperary to replace those taken from St. Brigid's? Ms Susan Mullins appeared before the committee in July. Since that time, things have become a lot worse in her view regarding the provision of healthcare, especially in respect of care at the step-down facilities. She...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Thank you. Does Mr. Ryan wish to make a closing statement?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: As said earlier, if we do not get them this time, we will have you back here again because this is the third or fourth time that we have asked. I appreciate what the witnesses have told us and we will take them at their word. I thank Mr. Ryan, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Ms O'Donovan and Ms McDaid for appearing before the committee. We found this meeting very beneficial. Hopefully, some of the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Due to the lack of a quorum, we have to defer consideration of petitions until our meeting on 19 October, when we will discuss all the petitions that were before us today. I thank Ms Karen Bebbington, Ms Barbara Hughes, Mr. Alex Alino and all the staff for the work they do to make the chairing of these meetings and the committee itself so easy-flowing. There is no other business so the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the current difficulties facing many parents in accessing school bus routes (details supplied); and if she plans to address the lack of capacity in the school bus service. [43694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the urgent and emergency care operational plan for 2023 at University Hospital Limerick; the progress made to date in immediately addressing the overcrowding and capacity issues at University Hospital Limerick ahead of a further increase due to winter demand; if further use will be made of Nenagh, Ennis and St. John's hospitals...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to increase bus capacity on the route fromBirdhill to Newport, County Tipperary (details supplied). [44598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 171. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current CDNT WTE vacancies across each of the 12 teams in CHO5; the number of administrative posts vacant; and the actions that are being taken to address those vacancies, in tabular form. [44545/23]

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling the motion today. Like many other Deputies, I have been contacted by many people who say the situation facing people awaiting driving tests has gone so far that it is now holding them back from planning their lives. I will focus on the impact it is having on people in rural Ireland, who do not have the luxury of regular bus or train services...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: The actions of Hamas on 7 October were unacceptable and must be condemned by all. The response from Israel must also be condemned because the actions we have seen against 2.5 million people in the largest open-air prison cannot be described as defensive. People are dying in their thousands, yet what we hear on the international stage appears to fall short of appearing like preparations for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current CDNT WTE posts vacancies across CHO5, broken down, in tabular form, according to each of the 12 teams; the number of those vacancies that are administrative posts; and the actions that are being taken to address those vacancies. [44705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if any progress has been made to make insurance for thatched properties more affordable; if he will outline the meetings that have taken place between his Department and the insurance sector on the matter; if there are any further actions his Department considers may be open to it to address the high cost of insurance apart from promoting fire prevention...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for excluding invalidity benefit from the bonus announced in Budget 2024; and her views on whether this is justified, given the rising cost of living. [45433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given to the increased cost of running animal welfare and animal rescue organisations as preparations are made to allocate animal welfare grants to various organisations; if increases in funding in line with the additional costs incurred by these organisations are being considered; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken since 2020 to improve capacity within community health services in the mid-west to take pressure off the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick; the reasons that such measures have been unable to avoid the high number of presentations at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: 267. To ask the Minister for Health if research has been carried out by his Department to ascertain the impact that waiting lists are having on the effectiveness of antibiotics which in many cases are being prescribed repeatedly due to the length of such waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45568/23]