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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Are the witnesses aware that people in rural areas are being instructed to travel up to 30 miles each way to visit Seetec for example? People with no rural transport and no means of getting there are requested to travel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Maybe it could be quantified and measured; how much did Seetec pay out on travel last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am very conscious of the time. I just want a short explanation of how somebody can be told to pass a local employment scheme office to travel 30 miles to go to JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is the mileage rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Therein the problem lies. We get a lot of them. People are frightened because their benefits are taken from them if they do not comply with exactly what they are instructed to do. It was said that they get one warning or two warnings. When warnings are being given to really vulnerable people and they are frightened that they will not have a penny left and their payments will be cut, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: My final question is about somebody presenting with mental health problems. Is the person referred back to Intreo or the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is to both of the companies because that is what I have been told is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Turas Nua and Seetec put them in a room and make them reveal details about themselves in group situations. It is not a good situation.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Again today I have to raise the issue of the cervical screening scandal and the failure of the Government to respond to the calls for the head of the HSE to be removed. It symbolises its ineptitude to deal with the horrific situation that presents for women. The words "contempt" and "unfeeling" come to mind when I see the response of the Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar. It is certainly not...

Seanad: Report on Credit Union Sector: Statements (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad to discuss the report on the credit union movement. I welcome the publication of the report and the significant amendments that were submitted by various parties. As did other speakers, I commend the work of all of the volunteers and people connected to credit unions, and certainly to all of the credit unions I know, which form the very heart of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to discuss mandatory disclosure and especially the decision by the Government in November to include the amendment on the advice of the HSE. This amendment would mean that disclosure was voluntary rather than mandatory. Who within the HSE gave this advice to the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister obviously did not have that. Even though he gives the impression in the committee that he had cross-party support for it being voluntary rather than mandatory, and while it might have been discussed at the committee, the recommendation from the HSE was that it would be voluntary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Did the HSE give any opinion at all on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Chief Medical Officer is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----and he is not connected to the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: This is part of the problem; "it is not him it is me or it is the State Claims Agency" and it is bound up-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is a problem in terms of transparency. Would the Minister admit now that it was a serious error of judgment last November to follow that advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Who defines if something is a serious incident or not? Yesterday we spoke to the State Claims Agency and it was obvious that Vicky Phelan was just another run-of-the-mill case and there was no need to report it to anybody or to do anything else. Who defines what is a serious incident and at what point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If the Government welcomed mandatory reporting why did the Minister still find it necessary to include the amendment? I cannot understand it. It is not just about mandatory reporting of serious incidents; it is about having a culture of mandatory reporting within the system.