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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: We will resume our meeting. I call Deputy Crowe to speak. He is very welcome.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: There has to be a limit. We have three more members looking to get in.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: Deputy Durkan will make a short intervention.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: For what it is worth, the committee went out and had a look at the site in December. We went to areas we had seen before. I am a layperson but there is no way, under anyone's timetable, that the hospital will be finished by September. I would put my life on it that it will not happen.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: There is a huge amount of work. There is no way it will be finished by September. That is my personal view. I follow through on what my colleague said, that it would be useful for the Minister to follow up with the board and perhaps have a look himself at what still needs to be done. A huge amount still needs to be done.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: I said to the Minister and some of his officials that we would probably finish earlier today, but that was my naivety.
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (31 Jan 2024)
Seán Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 38 – Health.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: Thanks very much, Minister. Just before we get into the cut and thrust of the meeting, which is an examination of the Revised Estimates, I want to inform the Minister and his officials that a delegation from this committee travelled to Derry in the last two days. We met representatives of the Western Health and Social Care Trust and visited Altnagelvin Hospital and the Ulster University...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: I have some questions. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, to our meeting. I believe it is her first time attending our meeting and we look forward to it as a committee. We are meeting in the next couple of weeks on health awareness. We look forward to that session. I will do some overviews of some of the challenges within the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: Did the Minister say he would ask someone to come in on section 39 bodies?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister. I will make a comment before we conclude. The upsetting thing about the waiting lists is that in many of these areas, if someone has money, they can access services. Unfortunately, poor people or those who do not have access to spare cash are being left behind, whether it is in the context of dental care, accessing a doctor or paying for the basic things that are...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Seán Crowe: Maybe I am just too optimistic about how these things go. I apologise to the staff for going over time. I apologise to Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne for there not having been more time. That concludes our consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 38 – Department of Health. In accordance with Standing Order 101, a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Cullinane and Shortall. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, are the minutes of the committee meetings on 17 and 23 January 2024, which have been circulated to members for consideration, agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with representatives from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Family Carers Ireland on the health needs of persons with dementia and the services available to them. I am pleased to welcome from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland Mr. Andy Heffernan, chief executive officer, Ms Clodagh Whelan, advocacy manager, and Dr. Laura O'Philbin, research and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Heffernan. I invite Mr. Dunne to make opening remarks on behalf of Family Carers Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Dunne very much. I am going to open up the discussion to members. I think someone's mobile phone is ringing on silent, so I ask that it would be turned off as it impacts on the broadcasting system. We will go straight into questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Whelan. Again, if there is time, we might get a second round of questions in. I want to invite Deputy Pauline Tully, who is substituting for Deputy David Cullinane. She is very welcome to the committee this morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Crowe: We have to move on. Deputy Hourigan is next.