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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister and I thank him for attending. I also welcome the review. As somebody who voted "Yes" but, unlike others here, was not an active participant in the campaign, I am a little concerned. We are talking about the review of the legislation, but already we are hearing talk of what will happen if the review suggests that we get rid of the 12-weeks provision, increase that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: That is fine. Obviously, the legislation as passed has to be fully supported. I agree with other speakers that there should be geographical availability of the services as per the wishes of the people in the referendum. I am concerned, however, because the Minister stated earlier, in response to one of my colleagues, that if recommendations come from the review, they will have to be brought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: Tendering for consultancy services is something that many State bodies do, but I am bewildered as to how that is linked to the chair. You tender for a group or body to provide services, but I have never heard of tendering for a chair. You put an advertisement for the appointment of a chair on the Public Appointments Service website or the Minister picks a chair. I have never seen a tender...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: I really do not think this makes sense at all. We should appoint the chair and the Department of Health should provide money to allow that chair to do his or her work. Is it effectively almost a consultancy company that is being tendered for? It just does not make sense to me. A company normally tenders for something and puts in a price, but Ms Luddy is stating that you get a chair and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: The Department pays the person. That is fine. I am concerned now that the chair would need to be almost an expert in consultancy and everything else rather than an expert on the issues we are dealing with here. It is quite a specific skill set. Normally, from practice, chairs of new bodies, certainly when appointed by Government, are former Supreme Court or High Court judges, retired...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: If a tribunal-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: Does the chair of a tribunal-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: When a tribunal is established, as many have been, you do not go to tender for the chair of the tribunal, so why would we go to tender for a chair of this review body?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: I am sorry to go back to the same point but there is some confusion. I do not doubt the Minister has received legal advice in the Department that this approach should be taken, but considering the level of confusion expressed by me and others this morning, will the Minister undertake to consult the Attorney General as to whether this approach is necessary? I am cognisant that in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: That would be helpful but considering the sensitivity of the matter, we do not want to get off to a questionable start. The best possible advice should be obtained on the Public Appointments Service, PAS, and the Department funding the services of the chair and the group the chair would establish around him or herself to carry out the review. If that were to be verified and checked with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. Kenny for his presentation on behalf of SIPTU and I welcome him and all SIPTU members who have joined us today. I have good reason to thank the members of the National Ambulance Service in that on two occasions this year my uncle received wonderful treatment from paramedics and hospital staff. He is in a nursing home now, having suffered two strokes this year. On the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: Is it impacting on response times? Obviously, it is a measure that has been put in place to ensure that there is an ambulance on the road to meet a patient but, unfortunately, if that ambulance has been taken away from its home area that means if there is an incident or a call-out in the home locality there will be no ambulance. If my understanding is correct, under the old methodology...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: Response times in rural areas are poor for reasons of geography. They are particularly poor in the west of Ireland. There have been some improvements in terms of provision in Tuam and Belmullet and I understand there are plans for a new ambulance base in the Connemara region. Are there other geographical blackspots that SIPTU members have identified as in need of in-house services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: In terms of the increase in call volume, as people are living longer is that increase in the main from the elderly population or are there problems within urban areas in terms of late night revellers and drink-related accidents? Are there incidents of ambulance staff being under duress, pressure or assault in some of these incidents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: What type of calls are being made that are not necessary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: That is taking away from resources that could be best placed elsewhere. Is there a charge for unnecessary calls?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Seán Kyne: I note Mr. McEvoy is indicating.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (20 Jan 2022)
Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan. I would like to thank the Cathaoirleach's office for choosing this Commencement matter. I know the Minister of State is familiar with Connemara and the N59. I am sure he has driven it on numerous occasions going out to Clifden or elsewhere in Connemara. Over the past couple of years we have seen huge improvement on that road. First of all,...