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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: So they get their full audiological assessment and are then referred on if interventions are needed. Could this result in a scenario in which, in five or ten years, no schoolchild will have hearing loss that has not been identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: Sometimes life would be simple, only humans complicate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: So the proportion of children who develop hearing loss going through primary and post-primary school could rise from 4% to 8% or 10%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: One would wonder why this screening of babies did not begin happening a long time ago. It seems very simple. As our guests probably know, I do a great deal of advocacy work for eye care and sight loss, and there is a need for a national strategy for the prevention of preventable sight loss as well. A lot of national strategies are needed. From our perspective, and I think I speak for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: The bulk of the latter third come from product sales. There is a commercial wing to the organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I concur with what my colleagues have said. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for being here. I first came across this issue five or six years ago and have always taken an interest in it. It is great that there have been some developments in the US, although they will probably take some time to reach us here, which is always an issue. Are any supports being provided to the siblings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: Do many siblings within families take up that option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: It is rare that people come in here and actually have good things to say about the HSE, even though it does lots of good work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: It is a great organisation but that does not get acknowledged. The committee's role is to stress-test and deal with issues to which the HSE is not responding but it is good to hear the other side as well. I thank our the witnesses and congratulate them on all their great work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I am not suggesting it does not. That is fine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Yet again today I stand up to raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL. As people heard on the news, today is the third day that elective procedures have been cancelled in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary. It is completely unacceptable that we are still in this situation in March. I want a debate with the Minister for Health in the House specifically on UHL. People are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Yet again, I raise the issue of UHL. Today, at least, elective surgery is resuming at the hospital having been suspended for two days due to pressure on the emergency department. A number of things have happened, one of the most important of them being the decision announced today by Mr. Bernard Gloster, CEO of the HSE, on "Morning Ireland" that the minor injuries unit at Ennis Hospital...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Well said.

Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I move: "That Seanad Éireann agrees to the first amendment made by the Dáil to Seanad amendment No. 13."

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister. The interventions from Senators Clonan and McGreehan were powerful and explained clearly that, as Senator McGreehan rightly said, we needed to create this safe space in order for people to breathe, clear their heads and come to terms with things. People go in and out of these facilities for many reasons – some of them joyous, some of them not so joyous, some...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I am speaking in the context of the amendment regarding protesting at Leinster House. I am drawing comparisons with the concerning developments in the United States. We saw what happened on 6 January 2020 and the challenges and concerns there. We have to be careful. I urge the Minister to reflect and take on board the concerns about the need to be able to protest in the vicinity of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State. Before I call Senator Cummins, I welcome to the Gallery Isobel Danaher from County Clare and her father, Dan. Isobel is an award-winning student journalist in post-primary school. She has interviewed me over the years and had several articles published in the regional press. I have no doubt this will be her first of many visits to Leinster House. I also...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State and Senator Higgins. I am sure I speak on behalf of everybody in asking her to pass on our very best wishes to President Higgins for a speedy recovery.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Before I call on the Minister of State, I welcome Ned and Mary O'Hara. Ned is a former general secretary of the Irish Postmasters Union and did great work over the years. He is very welcome to Leinster House. I hope he and Mary enjoy their day. They are guests of Senator Carrigy.