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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cathair na Gaillimhe, Cathair na Gaeilge: Plé (8 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Luaigh an Teachta Connolly lóistín agus is ceist mhaith í sin. Tá a fhios ag chuile dhuine go bhfuil na huimhreacha ag dul sa treo ceart ach gur gá i bhfad níos mó a dhéanamh. Tá céatadán leagtha síos ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe do chainteoirí Gaeilge i chuile eastát tithíochta príobháideach agus...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cathair na Gaillimhe, Cathair na Gaeilge: Plé (8 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Tá ceist agam ar Mharcas Ó Conaire agus ar Mháirtín Ó Donnchadha ó thaobh an dualgais reachtúil go mbeadh 20% d’oibrithe cumasach sa Ghaeilge faoi 2030. Cé chomh dúshlánach is a bhéas an céatadán sin laistigh den chomhairle contae agus an comhairle cathrach nó an bhfuil cuid den obair déanta? B'fhéidir...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cathair na Gaillimhe, Cathair na Gaeilge: Plé (8 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Dírím mo cheist dheireanach ar Charoline Ní Fhatharta maidir le lóistín an champais. Tá a lán oibre déanta ag Ollscoil na Gaillimhe leis an áis nua i Dunlin Village agus Goldcrest Village freisin roimhe sin. Mar sin tá a lán leapacha ar fáil. An bhfuil céatadán leagtha amach do chainteoirí Gaeilge? An bhfuil siad...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cathair na Gaillimhe, Cathair na Gaeilge: Plé (8 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Tá sé sin an-suimiúil. Beimid in ann é sin a phlé arís. Is dea-scéal é céard atá leagtha amach do chainteoirí Gaeilge laistigh de lóistín na hollscoile. B'fhéidir gur féidir níos mó a dhéanamh sna blianta amach romhainn. Nuair a bheidh Orlaith Ní Mheachair agus a chomhghleacaithe ag...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Gloster and his team. Mr. Gloster came before the committee on 27 September regarding capital infrastructure in Galway. At that stage, he said he had decided to: ... get a full project team with good, strong expert advice from outside as well as inside to the Saolta group and we would rapidly ensure the overall capital plan for Galway is set out in terms of all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: The work has not started yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I know work has not started on the building. Has the board started work on the plan? It is hiring consultants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Last September or October, Mr. Gloster gave the impression that there would be no delay. It is now March and work has not started. I heard from a report during the summer that work would start in September. I would believe it will start at Christmas at this stage, given the way things go. There is nothing physical. A detailed design has to be drawn up and planning applications have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: It still has to finalise the detailed design of the individual components, whichever component it decides to go for first-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: With the best will in the world, it will be next year before any application for the emergency department, maternity and paediatric labs or regional cancer centre would be lodged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: There was a public meeting in Clifden the week before last regarding the district hospital. It is, in effect, a respite and step-down facility. It is very important in terms of end-of-life care for people who in their final days wish to pass away in their community and close to family if they have them. That is important for many people. People specifically want to end their days in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: Mr. Gloster said it is being done by 13 of the 30 teams. What is the plan for the others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. Gloster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I acknowledge Mr. Gloster's comments on that. My colleague Councillor Eileen Mannion has been to the fore in terms of communication. There was a good process of communication and paused closures during holiday periods. Staff were moved when St. Anne's nursing home needed them. The communication lapsed after Christmas. It is important that there would be communication and that people would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses and acknowledge the investment by the Department and the new state-of-the-art Saolta radiation oncology centre that opened in UHG last October to target and treat tumours. That said, survival rates in the west are below the rest of the country. What is the strategy or how do the witnesses see that being evened out and improved nationwide and in the west over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Without making any excuses for it and we can debate the Government’s response to Covid-19 and so on at the time, how much do the witnesses think Covid-19 and the decisions made impact on the delivery of the outcomes of the third national cancer strategy? I am not trying to make excuses but just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: It is likely the next Government will deliver the fourth cancer strategy. That is not to say that we do not want to see the third one implemented in its fullest before that. From experience, when would the review of that start, in terms of the preparation or the draft strategy for the next outcome? What role will our witnesses have in feeding into that? Professor Kennedy mentioned the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Professor Kennedy mentioned in his opening statement that between 1994 and 1998 just 44% of Irish patients were alive five years after a cancer diagnosis and this has improved in 2018 to 65%. Literally thousands of people are alive today and have gone on to have families and have lives and all that goes with that because of the cancer strategies and investment. The figure in 2018 was 65%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Would that be the same for heart disease and for all other illnesses? Obviously the 1990s were different in terms of education, more people smoked such as people who started smoking in the 1950s and 1960s who did not know the consequences of it. With younger people today, there may be more pressures, bombardment or whatever else, but most young people know there are dangers with smoking,...