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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Our meeting is coming to an end. A number of Members still want to contribute, but I want to ask a couple of questions myself. The Irish Cancer Society talked about people receiving life-changing news alone. I myself have been in that position, like Deputy Tóibín, in that I have got that difficult information and was told I had cancer. Can anything be done about this, bearing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I would have liked the HSE to respond, but we just do not have the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I apologise, but I must cut Ms Murphy off there, because we are way over our time limit, and there is a safety element to consider in respect of members of the committee and staff here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses for their engagement today. At next week's meeting, the joint committee will hear from Professor Brian MacCraith, who is the chair of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination, and representatives of the Department and the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: 528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 595 of 1 December 2020, the additional resources that will be provided to the naturalisation service to clear the backlog in cases arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and the High Court ruling of 2019; when her Department will consider the pandemic over given the advice not to submit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: 22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines that Intreo offices have been issued in relation to the sanitisation of electronic signing equipment used by the public; and the number of persons currently required to sign on for any social protection service or payment. [39924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: 367. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the third national paediatric rheumatologist position currently open for applications to be filled; if children with Down's syndrome face a four-year waiting list to be assessed for arthritis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that parents of children with Down's syndrome were promised a reduction in this referral time to three...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: This meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2020, Vote 38 - Department of Health. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and his officials to the meeting to consider the Supplementary Estimates. I also thank them for providing the briefing note relating to the Supplementary Estimates. I invite the Minister to make some...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Will the Minister send the committee a written breakdown of where the funding is going as there is confusion on the task force about this?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I am going to bring an end to this discussion. I call Deputy Hourigan.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I was fairly flexible with members. If they change their question a bit, it is all within a discussion of the Estimates.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I note what the Deputy is saying and perhaps we might discuss that at a later stage. I call Deputy Gino Kenny now.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I will return to the issue of private hospitals. Most of us accept that it was the right road to go down, but many looking in found it frustrating that many of the hospitals were not being fully utilised. There was a lack of flexibility within the HSE or the Department. Somebody should have called stop and said that we need to use the private hospitals for something. That was not going on...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I ask the Minister to reply in writing to the query about the number of public health nurses.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Hourigan raised a matter in respect of the Estimate. Clearly, the Estimate is massive and perhaps we need to examine how it is done. Maybe we should provide supports for committee members. We do it for overseas aid and it is done in other parliaments. It is something that we should consider. I did not got a sense that we have dug into the Estimates and where the money will be...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: It is a specific 72-bed project-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: In Tallaght Hospital. Palliative care was mentioned. All of us have been in hospitals when people were informed that their loved one was going to die. I was in a hospital one night when someone was dying on a trolley. A man nearby was being transferred to a bed and there was much effing and blinding, so to speak, while this woman was dying with her family around her. There is a need...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I think it goes across all Departments.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will write to the Ceann Comhairle, and I believe it needs to be raised at the Business Committee also. That concludes the consideration of the Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2020, Vote 38 - Department of Health. I again thank the Minister and his officials for attending the meeting this evening.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2020: Vote 38 - Department of Health.