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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Does Ms O'Connor understand, from the ordinary person's perspective, that the logic of somebody requesting to be supervised when somebody else is paid and tasked with the job of supervising does not make sense? The HSE is a big organisation. I would be very concerned that that type of structure is prevalent in other areas of the organisation. As a committee, we need to look at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I have a question for Dr. Young. In her answers to Deputy Colm Burke, she made the point that a couple of locums have come and gone and there was a particular locum who came but left because he had issues, to quote what Dr. Young said earlier. Was an exit interview carried out with that locum and what were the learnings from that exit interview?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: With all of this over-management and all of these structures, with one reporting in to the other and nobody reporting in to anybody, it seems there is very poor supervision and appalling management. It is going to cost the taxpayer millions upon millions that could easily have been spent improving care. That is appalling. I will hand over to Deputy Griffin.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Like some who have already spoken and, I have no doubt, others who are going to speak, I acknowledge that today is International Women's Day. We men have a role to play in trying to achieve the type of equality that women deserve. I am talking about real equality in sport, culture, arts, business, education and politics. The inequality women have experienced over many decades has largely...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House and thank her for taking this Commencement matter. Shannondoc is a community healthcare service, a co-operative of doctors as it were, in the mid-west region to provide out-of-hours service. We can recall how years ago, doctors were on call all the time. It could be 6 p.m. or 8 p.m. it did not matter; doctors were still on call. In order...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I again thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber with a logical answer to an important question. Of course, Covid has been a problem and much healthcare ended up being stalled because of it. Progress, and the incremental progress we like to see, has been challenged. The problem with Shannondoc is that on many occasions there has been no cover. That was simply down to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: That is fine. I thank the Chairman.

Seanad: Brain Health and Dementia: Statements (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: It is humbling listening to Senator Mullen sharing his experience of the on-the-ground reality of his father having dementia. I regularly spoke to him in the latter years of his father's life. Rónán always bore the challenge, which it is and was, with dignity and compassion. I really admired the way he and his family did that over the years. It is a lesson to everyone. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I thank our guests. We have had an informative discussion, although one might feel we are going over old ground. I listened to Ms Ní Sheaghdha's engagement with previous speakers, particularly on the issue of UHL. We all agree there has been significant Government investment in the hospital, including in the emergency unit and the 60-bed modular unit. As a politician for the region,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Was UHL the hospital in question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: From the INMO's engagement on this issue and what Ms Ní Sheaghdha is saying here today about the lack of senior clinical management to do the discharging at certain hours, is it fair for us to conclude that this type of senior management is not in place at critical times in Limerick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I accept that and I know it is a problem nationwide, but it is a much bigger problem in Limerick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I accept that. However, based on our engagement here this morning, and I put this to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: Does Ms Ní Sheaghdha believe there is resistance to the type of independent inquiry that would do that kind of unearthing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: For the record, I have asked the Minister the same. I also asked the chief executive of the HSE, when he was here two weeks ago, and Mr. Robert Watt whether they have confidence in the management in Limerick, to which both responded that they absolutely do. I pose the same question to Ms Ní Sheaghdha. Does the INMO have confidence in the management at UHL at this moment in time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: While we are awaiting confirmation of such an independent review, which we all will keep seeking, what can be done by senior management immediately to try to deal with the ongoing diabolical situation whereby up to 100 people are on trolleys at UHL? If Ms Ní Sheaghdha were to pick two or three actions that need to be taken immediately to deal with that, from her experience and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I take it, given-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: If the Minister goes ahead with the HIQA review, I take it that Ms Ní Sheaghdha's members will not co-operate with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Conway: I think Dr. Molloy wants to come in.