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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have number of questions. Recently the committee travelled to the North and met some people in Ulster University who spoke about North-South co-operation on the area of obesity. The clinician who came to the meeting spoke about the things that trigger obesity. It is not just food. Why is one person hungry after a meal while another is not? They are looking at trying to identify the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: There are all sorts of things we could talk about today regarding people not being able to cook so they are reliant on pizza and fast foods. People spoke about various offers available. I believe the action plan will be renewed shortly. Has the old action plan yielded tangible results? I will give an example. In 2018 the HSE reported to the committee on children similar obesity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: I am in the CHO 7 area where there is no dietitian, and that is important. If your child is obese, where do you go? You will try to get a dietitian. I made the point about a parent whose child had food disorders, so they had to go and get a skin prick for the child and they then got to the consultant. They cannot go directly to the consultant because the normal pathway is through a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: The Minister of State needs to wrap up so he might have to come back to us with some of the answers on those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: I need to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Crowe: I apologise. I know others probably want to come in but I am conscious of the staff here as well. That concludes the committee's meeting. I thank the Minister of State and Safefood for their engagement with the committee on this important matter. This concludes the committee's last meeting before the summer recess. I thank all the members and witnesses for their contribution to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Crowe and Senators Kyne, Hoey and Black. The minutes of the committee meeting of 10 July 2024 have been circulated among members for their consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is to receive an update on progress being made by the productivity and savings task force. The task force was established by the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. On behalf of the committee, I would like to be associated with the remarks relating to Mr. Ray Mitchell. He has been extremely helpful and courteous to the committee down through the years. He also came back and engaged and has been a vital structure between us and the Department. On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Mitchell very much for all his help and support....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: The ten minutes is for questions and answers. Deputy Durkan has used up his ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: I know. I am conscious-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy has used up his time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall said it was the last question two questions ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall will get a second round, hopefully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: I will bring in Deputy Gino Kenny, after which we will have a comfort break for five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: It might be useful for the committee to be sent a breakdown of where people send something if they want to send it back rather than taking up time at this meeting. Most people listening at home would have some sort of equipment they would like to get rid of or return for it to be recycled or reused. I know a number of elderly people who have quite expensive hearing aids sitting in a drawer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. We will take Senator Maria Byrne when we return just after a comfort break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: We spoke about productivity and savings. Mr. Gloster mentioned occupational therapists, OTs. Recently, I dealt with a case of an 83-year-old man who is trying to get access to a wheelchair. He needs a referral from an OT. He received a letter stating it will take two years or more to see the OT. He was then given a leaflet about the private purchase of equipment such as rails and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: Again, there was a lot of coverage in the papers regarding children, particularly those with scoliosis and orthopaedic issues. There was a family in touch with me who were a number of weeks in Crumlin hospital waiting on an MRI. There were other supports needed in order to take that MRI, but they were there for weeks. You would think it should not take weeks to get an MRI. I am conscious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: Mr. McCallion might touch on the virtual ward system. I think many people get it, particularly as it relates to those specialties. The big concern would be if the person develops complications. Will Mr. McCallion speak to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Crowe: There is one other area. We have talked about it before, and it relates to Pathfinder. I think we all got that it keeps elderly people in particular out of emergency departments. It made more than 10,000 call outs between January and April of this year alone. It makes sense in the context of the number of acute beds and so on. I submitted a parliamentary question in May and was informed...