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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I welcome everybody here. First, on a positive note, I thank Mr. Gloster for his engagement with Vision Ireland and the ECLO service. I know there is a very important meeting he has organised for this afternoon and I hope that will bring clarity on a multi-annual basis to this critical service. I thank him for that. To follow on from my colleague Senator Byrne, I was at that high-level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Sure, so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Yes, so as soon as-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Yes, I am conscious of that, Chairperson. Finally, on that, as soon as a decision is made, it will have to be actioned as a matter of urgency. That is where a team will need to be put in place very quickly. I hope we can have an engagement post Christmas on the implementation of the Minister's decision. On the second 96-bed block, I have been on this committee for two terms and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: And it was the right decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: To move on, the HSE has taken over Children's Health Ireland, which is very welcome and, moving forward, is the right decision. Can the witnesses give this committee any update on the timelines for the national children's hospital? Is there any further update they can give us on when we can expect patients to be seen at the hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Finally, to follow on from Deputy Cullinane on the allowance for advanced paramedics, I am looking at Circular 011/2009, which was issued following the Labour Court recommendation. It says clearly that in order to receive the allowance, the person receiving it needed to be continuing to practise advanced paramedic care. I do not really want to get into any specific person's allowance but,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I think it is something-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I do not have any particular personal issue with him receiving it. It is just the perception it creates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Just briefly.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I, too, congratulate the President-elect, former Deputy Catherine Connolly. It is a great achievement for her. She is a lady I have got to know around the Houses. I usually meet her early in the morning, particularly while she was Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have no doubt she will bring her enormous energy and vision to Áras an Uachtaráin and we wish her well. It is with deep...

Seanad: National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (4 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank the Minister, Deputy Foley, for her comprehensive open statement. I welcome the launch and publication of this five-year strategy. We have had strategies before but I genuinely believe that this strategy is comprehensive and meaningful. I also believe the resources are there. The mood music over the last two or three years has been...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: Will the Leader use his good offices to write to the Minister for Transport to ask him if he could ensure the long-awaited funding for the N85 realignment project between Ennis and Inagh in County Clare is included in the 2026 funding programme? This stretch of road has been on the agenda for a long time - many years. Clare County Council recently passed a motion calling for this funding to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: I acknowledge the fantastic work that the Irish Cancer Society does, particularly the nurses and the daffodil nurses and so on. This committee, in its previous iteration, was very supportive of the asks from the Irish Cancer Society. I would like to think that some progress has been made even though much progress clearly still has to be made. Underfunding is a challenge. It is not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: No, just before you go any further, it would seem to me from the information available to me that they are getting the same treatment in Nenagh that they were getting in UHL and that you were prepared to drive her to UHL. Now we are down to an issue as to whether the facility in Nenagh has been recognised by the Irish Cancer Society or not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: My understanding is that Nenagh is prepared to be that so where is the blockage? For people looking in here today that is inexplicable. It would come across as unnecessary red tape for an 85-year-old woman who the system to be fair to it, and we criticise the system a lot, in this case is facilitating to have a better quality of life at her age and have her treatment nearer to her home....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: Would there be a reason why it would not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: Perhaps the Irish Cancer Society might come back to the committee with a note and an update on this issue because time is of the essence given this lady's age.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Martin Conway: I call on the Leader to organise a debate on people with disabilities being active, particularly in sport. We have a very proud tradition in this country and a very proud Special Olympics team which does fantastic work in representing us abroad. Equally, our Paralympians do fantastic work representing us abroad and have had many achievements for which I commend them. There are thousands of...