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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I will move on. Senator Black is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: When does the HSE expect to close the Owenacurra centre? It was said earlier that there are 15 residents at the moment, that two are expected to move in the next week, that here have been honest and open discussions and that six are moving to nursing home care. In response to a question from Deputy Stanton, it was said that no one would be forced from the premises. Does the HSE have a date...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: What is the average length of time the current residents have been living there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: There are people there who would consider it their home. I was struck by the reference to moving to "high-support hostels". We are talking to families about moving a loved one from their home to, in some cases, a high-support hostel. The word "hostel" is jarring for anyone listening at home and for me. It signals a change that would be clearly unacceptable to many of those families. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: The other point that jumped out at me was that numbers were expected to decline. Is there an expectation that demand for services will decline in County Cork or in east Cork? I would have thought that demand was increasing in the context of a growing and an ageing population and demand would be expected to increase rather than decrease, which is why that statement jumped out at me. Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: We are running out of time but Deputy Ward has been waiting patiently since the start of the meeting to contribute. I invite him to do so now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I do not know if Mr. Fitzgerald wants to add anything else to what he has said. I am about to bring the meeting to a close. Is there anything else he wants to add?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Fitzgerald and his team for the time they have given us today and for turning up last week in the middle of a storm. On behalf of the committee, I thank them for their attendance today. It is the committee's view that we do not want to see any facilities closing down. We want to hear news of more facilities opening. This is a difficult time for the families and loved ones of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Gino Kenny, who will be substituted for by Deputy Bríd Smith. I welcome to the meeting the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, who will brief the committee on the review of the scope and structure of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. I also welcome Ms Geraldine Luddy, principal officer at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Before I bring in the committee members, will the Minister clarify for the committee members and people listening to proceedings at home, his understanding or interpretation of this three-year review of the Act? Will he outline when he expects to appoint the independent chair and when the review will be up and running?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Does the Minister know the timescale for appointing the individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I just wanted to find out when the Minister thinks the chair will be in place. He has said it will go through a tendering process or whatever. Will it be the end of this month, January or February? When will it be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I now call the first questioner, Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Cullinane is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Sorry, Deputy Durkan has another four minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thought you were finishing up. It was very unlike you - finishing early.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: You have run out of time. I ask you to contribute again later.