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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Mr. Walsh mentioned growth in demand, staff retention issues and recruitment difficulties. What plans has the HSE in place to address the challenges of recruiting and retaining staff and ensuring there are sufficient numbers coming through the education system? Is there engagement with, for example, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: In general, do they have the same?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Dental Services (19 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement debate this morning on the issue of dental services. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Health. The Irish Dental Association came before the Joint Committee on Health on 5 July regarding issues within the dental service. The chief executive of the association, Fintan Hourihan, and others have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Dental Services (19 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for the response. I am heartened that she believes there is merit in the suggestion and I hope she will be able to bring it back to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. As the Minister of State said in her response, the public dental service provides a programme for second class, sixth class and, subject to capacity, fourth class. There is a capacity issue, and...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: We will all agree the history of our island is quite complex. Many people around the world would not be able to fully and accurately describe and attest to the intricacies of our own history, even over the past 30 years, going back to our independence, the Civil War or, indeed, the plantations, which had such an enormous impact on our history. Likewise, I am not going to pretend to be an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I want to take up Deputy Kenny's last point. We have not finished our work here, so the Government is waiting for us. I am envious of colleagues who can be so definite on these issues. I remember attending a pro-life meeting as a public representative during the protection of life in pregnancy legislation, defending it and explaining it as best I could. At the time, there were a huge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Did Ms O'Shea attempt to get the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Yes, this is the problem. This is the one of the issues I have. I know Ms O'Shea said the last time that she could not assume that pregnancies resulted from this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I would counter that by saying that is critical. If Ms O'Shea is asking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I do not doubt that every woman is able to make a competent decision. I am not arguing the point. I am asking is there evidence of how many women went on to change their minds. That is the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I appreciate that. Those are valid arguments. At the same time, for me, making a decision, I believe in data. I appreciate that it may be difficult to get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: The numbers are based on PPS numbers. I do not see that if a person went to one GP and another GP or one GP and went to hospital-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I presume those data can be made available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Are the figures not accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Are they not accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Okay. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: In yesterday's edition of the Irish Independent, its environment correspondent, Caroline O'Doherty, wrote about another monumental cock-up in Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI, which will result in the failure of dozens of prosecutions for fisheries offences throughout the country. This follows on from the discovery of a similar mess-up a few years ago due to a flaw in the 2010 Act that set up...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I concur with Senator Lombard. There is an animal welfare issue and a moral issue there. The vast majority of farmers would not knowingly send an animal in calf to slaughter. If this is required under directives or nitrates derogations or for our carbon footprint, well it has to be reversed. We cannot allow that sort of thing to happen and farmers to be forced to send animals to slaughter...