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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have reached the end of this session. Many issues have been raised by the witnesses. Hopefully, we will be able to advance some of them. We were not aware that there was no discussion regarding the pandemic payment rate with Fórsa, but this is something that this committee can follow through on with the relevant authorities or Minister. We will also look at various other issues,...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have a terrible history in this State of treating people who have been let down by the failures of Government as opponents, enemies or costly and troublesome problems. Whether it was those who were unfairly charged in nursing homes, those whose lives were destroyed by the hepatitis C bad blood scandal in the 1980s or the small number still alive who suffered the lifelong birth effects of...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is insulting. That is insulting to our supporters.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The cost-of-living crisis shows no sign of ending. That is a fact. I do not know what bubble the Minister is living in.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Most constituents who come to me say they are suffering at this stage. A report launched by Barnardos this month shows food poverty is worsening, with one in ten people surveyed forced to use food banks in 2022, while 29% reported skipping meals to ensure their children could eat. Those food banks are not only in Sinn Féin constituencies; they are right across the State. The Ministers...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: People are starving and the Minister is sitting there smirking in her corner.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You are smirking. Your speech was full of smirks.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You were smirking and looking down on people. That is all you are good at.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: You were smirking at my constituents-----

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: -----and my voters.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: How dare you.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: How dare you.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I apologise, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I never lose my temper in here but I am not going to listen to this nonsense coming from the Minister anymore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Hourigan and Durkan. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, are the minutes of the committee meetings of 7 and 8 February 2023, which have been circulated to members for consideration, agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of the meeting today is for the Joint Committee on Health to meet with the Department of Health to discuss issues relating to nursing home charges. To commence the committee's consideration of this matter, I am pleased to welcome from the Department of Health Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General; Ms Siobhán McArdle, assistant secretary, social care, mental health and drugs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Thank you very much for your opening statement. I am going to move on to members, starting with Deputy Colm Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We will move on and I call Deputy Shortall now, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Maybe I can help. We did ask as a committee for additional information. We requested that Mr. Watt's Department provide the committee with key documents outlining the Department's approach to the handling of the nursing home charges concerned, legal actions relating to them including particular memoranda, including one from 2011, and briefing documents for the Ministers and Ministers of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We did not-----