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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: On that point, is the committee right to go to Dublin City Council and the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: When it comes to this report, I do not think that is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I would like to be associated with those remarks. Both services save people's lives every day. As part of that, many of their staff must see horrific scenes that they must bring home with them at night. I am aware of an incident in my constituency. The responders, who included ambulance service staff, are still dealing with what they saw that day. We are conscious of the risks the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Morton might comment on the age profile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: What is the average age of the members of the Dublin Fire Brigade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is the case right across the services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: A comment was made about people not contacting their GP or going through that route and, instead, calling the emergency services and that there is an increase in that. The acting CEO of the HSE was before the committee and he said there is a belief among some sections of the population that if someone rings 999 and he or she is picked up by an ambulance, he or she will get into the hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have had people in here to discuss the winter plan. Additional moneys were made available for the winter plan, including €7 million for the pathfinder projects, which our guests have talked about this morning. I think we all accept that the allocation is a welcome development and the more we can spread that across the State the better. Has the initiative had an impact on hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have dealt with this funding issue before, whereby funding, which was allocated and put towards the winter plan, has not been spent. I welcome the fact that this money has been spent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have reached the end. I thank the representatives the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade for their assistance on this very important matter. I echo all the earlier calls by members of this committee to ask the organisations to convey our appreciation to their members for their work and commitment. As Mr. Kelley has said, a service is provided 365 days year and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Now there is no excuse for me not to go. I adjourn this meeting until our meeting in private session next Tuesday.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The chief fire officer for Dublin Fire Brigade told the Joint Committee on Health last week that the combined resources of the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade cannot meet current ambulance demands in Dublin city and county. I sat through the meeting so I know what he actually said, which seems at odds with what the Minister was saying. You would think that would be a wake-up call for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Neasa Hourigan. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 15, 21 and 22 February 2023 have been circulated to members for approval. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to consider issues relating to the implementation of Sláintecare reforms with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Burke and call Senator Martin Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Dr. Burke made the point that when the pandemic arrived, pretty much everyone involved in Sláintecare was redeployed to the health system response to Covid. Is she criticising-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We all accept the importance of having a public health system that works and delivers. There is general consensus across the board on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is probably important to we remind ourselves that there was so much that worked during the pandemic. Dr. Burke mentioned some of the innovative things, such as the GP diagnostics and so on, but there was much that did not work or deliver. There was talk about a single-tier health system, but we know that private beds were not fully utilised. Was there a pushback within the system, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Did it highlight a lack of flexibility within the service, that we did not fully utilise? We are still dealing with the waiting lists, such as those mentioned at the start. Some 900,000 people are waiting for appointments and 200,000 are waiting for scans. Much of that could have been done by utilising those beds, even though the health system was trying to save them for the awful day...