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Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (29 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the hospital liaison initiative that was carried out in Tallaght University Hospital in which patients with addiction issues were given a pathway toward community-based support organisations; the assessment of that pilot programme’s outcomes; and if this approach has been or will be replicated in other hospitals or...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Seán Crowe: Believe it or not, I was head of Sinn Féin Youth in 1981. For a whole generation, particularly in Dublin, who at that time were teenagers or in our early 20s, the fire in the Stardust complex changed us forever. Forty-eight people died and 214 were injured on that fateful St. Valentine's night. Now, 41 years later, the families who fought tirelessly for answers have still not got the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: Today the committee will meet with the HSE and the Department of Health to discuss the implementation of Sláintecare. I welcome Mr. Paul Reid, CEO; Ms Anne O'Connor, chief operations officer; Mr. Liam Woods, national director of acute operations; Ms Yvonne O'Neill, national director of community operations, HSE; Ms Breda Crehan-Roche, chief officer of Community Healthcare West; and Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: With regard to future meetings about Sláintecare, there are very localised questions. I suggest to members that it is impossible for people coming in to have those answers. There is a mechanism if members want to ask those questions. We are not trying to trip anyone up. It would be much simpler. It is not satisfactory for members to ask questions and people not to have the answers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: I ask the Deputy to allow Mr. Reid to respond on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy is out of time. Does she wish to ask a final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: Does Ms Crehan-Roche want to contribute on the same issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: Thank you for that information. Senator Black is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy asked a number of questions. Does he want answers now or a written answer or what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: There is some indication that they might answer some of the questions. Does the Deputy want some answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: We are running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: No, the Deputy has about four or five minutes left. He can continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: I just meant for the answers. The Deputy can go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: We will try to get answers to some of the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: I welcome Deputy Guirke to his first meeting of the Joint Committee on Health.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: On improving healthcare in our regions and communities, we all agree we need to divert more people away from hospital care to a community and home setting. A number of committee members were contacted by, for example, Thrombosis Ireland representatives who raised the issue of people on anticoagulants. They said 700 people are using self-test monitors, while almost 250,000 people throughout...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: The number of people who are self-testing seems very small. It is 700 people when 250,000 use warfarin. I am just teasing out the logic of it. It would make sense on a preventative basis that the HSE would try to roll that out to that community. Are there any plans to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Crowe: One of the worries I have, and we touched on it earlier, relates to the pilot programmes being put in place in different areas. We rarely ever hear about the successful ones. Scans in nursing homes were mentioned. Some people are worried about regionalisation, going back to the old heath boards structure, and everyone working in silos apart from each other. That is why I am concerned...