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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I know it is a very unusual event but there can be other unusual events. How can Ms Hardiman categorically assure people there are not other unusual events?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: What I cannot get is this: those quality control mechanisms were in place before this happened, yet it happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: How can Ms Hardiman definitively say other issues of a similar nature have not happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I give blood regularly and have to give my date of birth five or six times during the process, from arriving to leaving. I cannot get my head around the fact that in a medical theatre an item is being put into someone’s body and there is no cross-referencing, numbering or double- and triple-checking. Surely to God that goes on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Then how could this have happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I get that, yet it happened. It is astounding. It was only picked up when a query went in from a concerned citizen, essentially. It was not picked up by any of CHI's internal or external processes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: That is grand and I totally accept Dr. Goldman’s bona fides on that but I am trying to find out whether there have been other instances. I cannot take the witnesses’ word that there have not been, simply because this has happened in spite of all their cross-references, checks and balance and so on. They cannot definitively tell me there are not other devices that were not of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Is CHI doing anything to review other procedures to double satisfy the witnesses in their conviction there are not other examples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Ms Hardiman said she never received the letter Deputy Shortall referred to. In that event, why did she feel it necessary to withdraw from the process? If she never received the letter, surely she did not need to withdraw from the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Is the deputy CEO here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Why not? Did he or she not feel it was appropriate to attend the committee as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Is Ms Hardiman confident the deputy CEO did not attend any of the meetings where these springs were discussed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I concur with Deputy Durkan and the Chairman on that issue. I am glad that Dr. Henry assured us that some work has been done to examine the matter but it needs to be kept under close observation. I checked the INMO trolley count and learned that there are 124 people on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick this morning but we have not reached October yet. Clearly, the issues in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: Has the business case been approved for the second 96-bed block?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I will turn to Barringtons hospital. I know a new facility is being built on the Ennis Road. How are negotiations going in terms of the purchase of Barringtons hospital? Is that still on the agenda and is it being considered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I will move on to elderly care. My colleague, Deputy Burke, has asked a number of questions about nursing homes. Some 31 private nursing homes have closed in the past three years. Most of those are in regional rural areas. Very few of them are city based. Mr. Gloster alluded to this earlier, when he said that when these homes close or have difficulties and their licenses are then...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: That is great. Is the State or the HSE engaging with many voluntary and community nursing homes to support them in refurbishing and upgrading their facilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Martin Conway: I want to ask Dr. Henry a question. Obviously, the Minister briefed Cabinet yesterday on the potential increase in viral infections over the winter. I want to check the readiness for that. How are we doing, vaccine-wise, both with the flu and the Covid vaccines? I presume we have plenty of stock of the flu vaccine to roll that out ahead of the winter period. In terms of Covid, are we...