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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Well said.

Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I move: "That Seanad Éireann agrees to the first amendment made by the Dáil to Seanad amendment No. 13."

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister. The interventions from Senators Clonan and McGreehan were powerful and explained clearly that, as Senator McGreehan rightly said, we needed to create this safe space in order for people to breathe, clear their heads and come to terms with things. People go in and out of these facilities for many reasons – some of them joyous, some of them not so joyous, some...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I am speaking in the context of the amendment regarding protesting at Leinster House. I am drawing comparisons with the concerning developments in the United States. We saw what happened on 6 January 2020 and the challenges and concerns there. We have to be careful. I urge the Minister to reflect and take on board the concerns about the need to be able to protest in the vicinity of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Yet again today I stand up to raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL. As people heard on the news, today is the third day that elective procedures have been cancelled in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary. It is completely unacceptable that we are still in this situation in March. I want a debate with the Minister for Health in the House specifically on UHL. People are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State. Before I call Senator Cummins, I welcome to the Gallery Isobel Danaher from County Clare and her father, Dan. Isobel is an award-winning student journalist in post-primary school. She has interviewed me over the years and had several articles published in the regional press. I have no doubt this will be her first of many visits to Leinster House. I also...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State and Senator Higgins. I am sure I speak on behalf of everybody in asking her to pass on our very best wishes to President Higgins for a speedy recovery.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: Before I call on the Minister of State, I welcome Ned and Mary O'Hara. Ned is a former general secretary of the Irish Postmasters Union and did great work over the years. He is very welcome to Leinster House. I hope he and Mary enjoy their day. They are guests of Senator Carrigy.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State for taking Commencement Matters this afternoon. We know he is busy and, as always, we appreciate his time. He is a frequent visitor to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. I know he is taking this Commencement matter on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. Clearly we would have preferred to have him here to deal with it but the Minister of State is an able replacement, to be fair. I raised this matter in February 2023. There are hundreds of people in County Clare, from Loop Head to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: The reply is positive but lacks one very important thing and that is timelines. What I need is dates.I am aware the role has been advertised externally and that there is interest in it. I am also aware there is a facility where the unit can be housed but we need dates. When can we expect this to happen? I am a little concerned the unit will support only 30 people. Many more than 30 in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I welcome the announcement of the school transport review yesterday, but there will have to be a realisation that significantly more money will have to be invested in the provision of buses if we are going to extend the criteria in the manner that was proposed in the report. We are also going to have to create a culture of thinking outside the box. Where buses supporting the Ukrainian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the delegates for attending. I have a straightforward, simple question for them: have they met the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, recently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: At that meeting, was there a commitment to set up the working group? Were the delegates given timelines at that stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I agree with Deputy Hourigan that the timeframe is very tight to feed into the Estimates process for budget 2025. My understanding is that the officials start preparing the Estimates in July. Really and truly, the working group would need to be set up immediately and work through quarter 2 of this year to have the recommendations signed off on. If at this stage the terms of reference are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: So they get their full audiological assessment and are then referred on if interventions are needed. Could this result in a scenario in which, in five or ten years, no schoolchild will have hearing loss that has not been identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: Sometimes life would be simple, only humans complicate it.