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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Can the witnesses make the minutes of the expert advisory group available to the committee? I am quite concerned that there was not unanimity there. I want to dig deep and if I have to put in an FOI, I will. I want to find out-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: Are they? That is fine. The witnesses might send a copy to the committee because I would be interested in going through them in detail.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Facilities (6 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. It is good to have him here. I thank him for coming in and taking this Commencement matter because I understand the Minister is abroad. That is just the reality for a Minister in Government. The issue of the maternity hospital in Limerick has been on the health political agenda for some time. I am 51 years of age. I was born in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Facilities (6 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State. With the greatest of respect to the Minister of State, who is just delivering the information, sometimes it is good to get a summation of facts we already know. My big issue here is the fact that it is next in line. Why can it not run in tandem with the one in Elm Park? That is the issue. Obviously, there is some necessary planning work taking place now...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: It is with great sadness, in a sense, but also great pleasure I am here to say a few words about a person, Billy Lawless, I considered a true parliamentarian and a good friend. I extend my sympathies to Billy's family on their loss but they can take great solace from the fact that he lived a great life and did a huge amount in industry and business. I think his proudest time was his time...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I, too, would like to be associated with the sympathies expressed to the Finucane family on the passing of the legend that was Jim Finucane. I had the privilege of having a cup of tea with Jim about three or four weeks ago after he was appointed to his position as honorary consul for Ukraine when he was in Dublin. I believe it was the day after he had been appointed. He was a great and...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (5 Nov 2025)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The post office network is exceptionally important. It is important for many reasons, but one is because of the indelible link that people have with their post office. People remember going to post letters as children and the green box and all of that. That has evolved. Sadly, there are not too many young people now posting Christmas cards,...

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...