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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: Before I return to the members, I remind the committee that it is being asked to enable the funds that have already been committed to specialist neurology nurses in community neurorehabilitation services to be actively translated into actual services on the ground; to request the HSE to deliver an immediate action plan to tackle the shortage of inpatient rehabilitation beds; and to begin to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: Do the witnesses want to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Rogers very much. We all know as politicians that we tend to meet more of those people for whom the services are delivering but in our ordinary life we tend to hear more from people where the services do not exist or are not being delivered for them. The point was made about the huge cohort of people who have a neurological condition. In another couple of years, we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Cotter very much. I will speak now but I appreciate that there are other members also wishing to come back in. On Ms Cotter's own alliance, its members have mentioned that there are 30 not-for-profit organisations. I believe it is even more than that. These are all household names such as Acquired Brian Injury Ireland, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Chronic Pain Ireland,...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I only have a few seconds. I wish the families well. My thoughts are with them and all their loved ones. I thank Justice for the Forgotten, the Pat Finucane Centre and Relatives for Justice for all their hard work over the years. They have been a long time waiting on justice. We are not supposed to have a hierarchy of victims, but clearly in this case I do not think the Irish State has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated by the Pathfinder service; the total budget allocated to the service since it became operational; and if plans are in place to expand the programme across the State. [21765/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: No apologies have been received. Deputy Bernard Durkan is at a select committee meeting and said he will be in and out of this meeting. Before we go to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of committee meetings on 30 April and 1 May 2024 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of the committee meeting today is to receive an update...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: That is right, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: We said we would focus on that, but not exclusively. We never have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: We would normally give an indication of the area of focus. My apologies. There seems to be some sort of cross-purpose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: We will deal with it in private session. If there are specific questions, the members can focus on those. I call Senator Kyne to lead us off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have a couple of questions. I want to focus on some of the groups we have had in recently. Before I get into that, I have a local issue. We all tend to go down this route. I refer to the importance of Sláintecare, new pathways to care and so on. Two of the witnesses focused on waiting lists. I was told that the waiting lists for audiologist services in Tallaght last year was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: The chair of the Dental Council said it basically does not have teeth. It cannot follow through in relation to it. This is coming from it. It seemed to be a cry for help to our committee. The witnesses can come back on this. I said we would raise some of the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I think the problem is outside the HSE structure. Again, the figures speak for themselves. Some 100,000 children did not receive access to dental care last year. It seems to be a whole area of health we have fallen down on and there clearly needs to be a different focus on it. Another group, Vision Ireland, was in. Again, it talked about a lack of strategy in this whole area. One of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: That is the worry they have. They are worried that this bureaucracy is going to be duplicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I just wished to signal that it seems to be a concern of the organisation. I am sure it is replicated with others. I am conscious of time but the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association was in with the committee again. I am conscious that there is a new contract for the supply of oxygen. The organisation was saying it had met with the project manager as part of the process and that people were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses for the note we got but it did not really go into the supply issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I need to end this part of the meeting. I thank the representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE for continuing to engage with the committee. We look forward to working with them further on these important matters. The meeting is suspended and will resume shortly at 12 noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: The committee will commence its consideration of the draft World Health Organization, WHO, treaty to strengthen pandemic preparedness. I am pleased to welcome from the Department of Health Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Mr. Joe Hanly, principal officer, and Dr. Colette Bonner.