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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1543. To ask the Minister for Health if he will incentivise overtime work within the public health service; if he will consider making overtime pay for nurses tax free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1686/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1664. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that intravenous antibiotics cannot be administered in nursing homes and community hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to give full recognition to athletic therapists (details supplied). [2125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1718. To ask the Minister for Health when he anticipates he will be able to accommodate the meeting request made to his office by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2334/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the continuing and historic delays in issuing passports to foals born in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63368/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the stud book rules are not being adhered to by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the time has come to outsource the issuing of passports to foals in order for breeders to be able to sell their stock in the same calendar year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63370/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following a recent meeting that he hosted with farmers involved in the Burren Life and Burren Beo agri-environmental scheme, he will make adjustments to the new agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, or provide a separate funding scheme for Burren farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1918. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application for funding by a community centre (details supplied) will be examined; and if the centre is entitled to any additional grant aid given the extenuating circumstances in this case. [1624/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome our guests. I pay tribute to the many front-line health staff who have toiled over the past number of weeks to keep the system in some way functional. What we have seen as a national crisis in the last two or three weeks has been a perpetual crisis in the mid-west, particularly in University Hospital Limerick, UHL. We have a population in the mid-west that is just shy of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Over the Christmas period, a decision was taken to have the medical assessment unit in Ennis receive patients coming in from ambulance care rather than to have all patients funnelled through UHL. There is now a decision pending regarding Nenagh. The decision on Ennis, in itself, has alleviated some of the pressure, but not all. There is still a huge crisis. People want to know whether the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The three delegates have had very successful careers. Do they believe an ingredient in being successful or a manager or leader is having a presence on the ground, walking the corridors and having oversight of the situation? Do they agree with that generally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will return to that point. Does Mr. Mulvany think that to lead an organisation and to have oversight, it is necessary to have boots on the ground?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A major problem at UHL is that in the summer of 2020, the chief executive and her management team upped sticks. They moved up the road approximately 2 km to a lovely office block far removed from the hospital campus. They have no day-to-day oversight. They do not walk the corridors. They are in an office unit remote from the hospital campus. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: They probably came down in a taxi or a car on that day to meet Mr. Mulvany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With respect, they are not on site. We do not expect management to be involved in every clinical decision. We are not that naive but it certainly gives many members of staff confidence to have the chief executive and all the clinical management team walking corridors at certain times of day. It gives huge confidence to patients, the public and staff but that is not the case. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: As of today, over the past three years, 972 fully trained Irish doctors - our best and our brightest - have left these shores and been granted visas to work in Australia. We talk about beds, trolleys, building capacity and new hospital blocks but what I heard repeatedly from staff over the Christmas period is that the physical environment in which care is provided is one issue. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Would the HSE be open to using hotels, commercial premises, across the road from hospitals to build bed capacity and provide accommodation that will take a long time to build, in the manner the Reeves centre in Tallaght does?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: For patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, is there any good news on the Kaftrio drug for these 35 children?