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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We have written to the Department about it so the Minister might get that brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Yes, very briefly, as we are short on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Can the Minister reply rather sharpish because we have to be out of here? Perhaps in writing if that is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Just one more question and, again, a written reply will suffice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I suggest that this conversation continues outside of the room. I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and the Department officials for their helpful engagement here this morning. The Minister has committed to supplying members with a note in response to their questions. I ask him to supply any notes to the committee as well so they can form part of our report for today. At the...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Budget 2021 will be judged by the way it impacts on citizens' lives, whether it improves, disimproves or has no impact on them. It is important that we talk about real citizens. I want to give the Minister an outline of a letter I got today from a constituent. He says that he is in agony. He has problems with his cervical spine, which he says is busted, and his lumbar spine. He has been...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: My party, Sinn Féin, has been clear since the Brexit referendum in 2016 that the protection of full and equal access to EU benefits, such as the EU health insurance card, Horizon 2020 research funding and Erasmus programmes are vital in protecting the rights of Irish citizens living in the North of Ireland. It is welcome that the Irish Government has sought to make arrangements in order...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will begin with the draft minutes, correspondence and the draft work programme. Following our private meeting yesterday afternoon, I asked the committee to confirm that the minutes of the meeting of 4 November, the actions relating to items of correspondence, the additions to the work programme and the establishment and work programme of the new subcommittee on mental health were agreed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will discuss this issue at our next private meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Let us discuss this in our next private session. We will get into more detail at that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I welcome our witnesses from the HSE, who will be briefing us on the executive's winter plan. This takes on a particular significance during these Covid times and will be in operation until April 2021. I welcome Mr. Paul Reid, CEO; Ms Anne O’Connor, chief operations officer; Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer; and Mr. Liam Woods, national director of acute operations. Before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I remind witnesses and members of the challenges we face in terms of time constraints. The first session is ten minutes each, and that includes the replies. The following session is seven minutes each and, again, that includes replies. If we bear with that, we will get through the meeting. I call Senator Kyne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We have run out of time for this session, so other guests who wish to contribute might wait until later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I suggest maybe a written reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I ask that this be the final point from Dr. Henry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Yes, please, but we are way over time on this section.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Hourigan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I do not expect the witnesses to have all the detail on all of those questions, so they should pick on the ones they can answer and perhaps send a written reply to others, which we would appreciate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses might come back with written replies to some of the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I have a number of questions but I will not have time to get into them today. Part of what we try to do here is reassure the public. We have heard this morning about the flu vaccine. Mr. Reid was talking in terms of minimising the impact of Covid on the cancer services and screening. In the final minute or two, he might expand on how that his happening. The big message people want to...