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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It was said earlier that prior to Covid there seemed to be a delay in the roll-out of the project itself. This was my sense because I travelled in and out of St. James's Hospital for about 38 days and there did not seem to be a huge amount of activity on the site. This is just anecdotal evidence. There was a lot of concern in the media at that time. Was that helpful? There was a "Prime...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It would be helpful for the committee to go to the site at some stage. Again, we are still at a loss - I certainly am and I do not know about other members - about what exactly is causing the delay. There seemed to be a delay before Covid. We understand delays during Covid. Are there delays because of subcontractors not being paid by the main contractor? Is this causing some difficulty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will finish on that. My thanks to all the witnesses for their helpful engagement with us this morning. I know some of the questions have been difficult and so on but it was really helpful. We will take up the board on the possible visit, perhaps in the new year. At our next meeting we will meet representatives of the National Public Health Emergency Team to get an update on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (24 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: 766. To ask the Minister for Health if the protocols for transferring patients from acute beds to nursing homes have been revised since March 2020; if all patients are Covid-19 tested before being transferred to a nursing home; the number of such tests that have been performed; and if single room accommodation is provided for all such patients for at least 14 days after transfer. [37766/20]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: As other speakers have pointed out, this section is out of synch with the rest of the Bill. I read the explanatory memorandum to the Bill and it states that the threshold for third-country residents to qualify for the scheme is €175. That has not been updated. We need an explanation of where the Government is coming from with this provision. As colleagues have noted, the retail...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I am one of those unfortunates who likes a bargain. I listened to the speech of the Minister of State and I must write a note to myself not to shop in his store in future. I do not think there was anything he outlined to us that would change our minds on this. We are all starting from the position that we believe the sector is on its knees and this will introduce a new element that will...

Mental Health Parity of Esteem Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: It says much and highlights the lack of regard, respect and priority that we display to those with mental health issues that we are forced to bring forward a Bill acknowledging that mental health issues should be held in parity with physical health. I welcome the Bill and thank my colleague, Deputy Ward, for introducing it and giving us the opportunity to begin this conversation on an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: 480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines that Intreo offices have been issued in relation to the sanitisation of electronic signing equipment used by the public. [39884/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (1 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average time it takes for a naturalisation applicant’s passport to be returned after receipt by the INIS. [39883/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: This meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2020, Vote 38 - Department of Health. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and his officials to the meeting to consider the Supplementary Estimates. I also thank them for providing the briefing note relating to the Supplementary Estimates. I invite the Minister to make some...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Will the Minister send the committee a written breakdown of where the funding is going as there is confusion on the task force about this?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I am going to bring an end to this discussion. I call Deputy Hourigan.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I was fairly flexible with members. If they change their question a bit, it is all within a discussion of the Estimates.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I note what the Deputy is saying and perhaps we might discuss that at a later stage. I call Deputy Gino Kenny now.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I will return to the issue of private hospitals. Most of us accept that it was the right road to go down, but many looking in found it frustrating that many of the hospitals were not being fully utilised. There was a lack of flexibility within the HSE or the Department. Somebody should have called stop and said that we need to use the private hospitals for something. That was not going on...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I ask the Minister to reply in writing to the query about the number of public health nurses.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Hourigan raised a matter in respect of the Estimate. Clearly, the Estimate is massive and perhaps we need to examine how it is done. Maybe we should provide supports for committee members. We do it for overseas aid and it is done in other parliaments. It is something that we should consider. I did not got a sense that we have dug into the Estimates and where the money will be...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: It is a specific 72-bed project-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: In Tallaght Hospital. Palliative care was mentioned. All of us have been in hospitals when people were informed that their loved one was going to die. I was in a hospital one night when someone was dying on a trolley. A man nearby was being transferred to a bed and there was much effing and blinding, so to speak, while this woman was dying with her family around her. There is a need...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I think it goes across all Departments.