Results 2,221-2,240 of 8,649 for speaker:Seán Crowe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: The difficulty during the pandemic in getting the expertise from abroad has been resolved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: With regard to scoliosis, we had some very moving testimony from doctors who were in the service but also from families. They were talking about the backlog and the challenges they are facing. As I said, it was moving testimony about the agony that children are going through. There have been problems within the system itself. Have they been resolved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: The issue of speech and language supports was touched on earlier. Teams are missing key personnel and, again, we are looking at waiting times in this regard. What is the plan to address that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: Mr. Reid referred to the National Children's Hospital. Have we an indicative date for when it will possibly open?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: What is the plan with regard to the roll-out of dental care for those on medical cards? There is a shortage of dentists and they are basically opting out of the scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: Is there any positive message that we can send to those families who are looking to try to get onto some dentist’s programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: Another issue that came up is the waiting time for trying to get a hearing aid adjusted. I recently encountered the case of a child with Down's syndrome where it was not about getting a new hearing aid or getting tested, but just getting it adjusted, and they were talking about possibly waiting two years. Again, I am not bouncing this on anyone but there seems to be a problem with the system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: It is not just that case and I am talking in general.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: It is said that there are even more difficult cases. The length of time is being talked about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: With regard to long Covid, I know the HSE is trying to collate figures. The committee hopes to deal with the matter at some stage. I know there are some centres but, while one centre might be dealing with the lungs and heart, inflammation of the brain may be involved, which requires neurological services. People are saying that the current model is clearly not working for them. People may...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: The witnesses get that people are having to go to different hospitals and that we need to look at that model.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: There was a commitment from the previous Government regarding cervical cancer testing in Ireland. I have seen the figures and they are very low. I understand there were challenges with regard to Covid and so on but is there a plan to increase that percentage and, if so, by how much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: The question was around tests being sent abroad and bringing this back to Ireland. Again, that was a commitment from Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: As the witnesses are probably aware, we have had a number of meetings regarding the national children's hospital. It has not come up here this morning but I imagine people at home are wondering what happens next. I know there were votes and so on but the Government has signed off on it. It will go to tender. Does the HSE have any sense of when that process will be completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: I keep saying national children's hospital but it is the national maternity hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: No, I did. Does Mr. Mulvany want to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: Senator Conway wants to come in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: I do not see anybody else indicating a wish to speak. I thank our guests for the comprehensive discussion they had with the committee today. I wish them well in the roll-out of the plan. They mentioned the 120,000 additional hours of personal assistant supports and 30,000 additional hours of home support. I suppose it will raise people's expectations in that regard. There is also the...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current average waiting time for the home surveys that are required to access SEAI free energy upgrades. [24203/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 May 2022)
Seán Crowe: 692. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of paediatric patients on the waiting list for audiology services in the HSE community audiology service in the Russell Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24; the average waiting time to access services; and the number of paediatric patients that have been waiting for longer than two years. [24444/22]