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Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Well said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I welcome the witnesses to what is an extremely important meeting. On the communication with the 19 people who were affected, why did CHI believe it was appropriate not to contact them until it had all its ducks in a row? Should it not have contacted them before that to alert them and perhaps follow up with the care plan or whatever else it was trying to put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Since this broke in the media, are there a number of the 17 who were only contacted yesterday or since the story went public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: That is fine. The spring at issue was a non-medical grade device. I think that is the correct terminology. Was it from an approved supplier to the witnesses’ group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: How in the name of God did it get into the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I put this to the clinical director or the medical director, who has expressed surprise, and stated that this was unusual and so on. How can it be said that other similar devices are not being used within CHI? How can it be said with certainty, given this has happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I know it is a very unusual event but there can be other unusual events. How can Ms Hardiman categorically assure people there are not other unusual events?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: What I cannot get is this: those quality control mechanisms were in place before this happened, yet it happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: How can Ms Hardiman definitively say other issues of a similar nature have not happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I give blood regularly and have to give my date of birth five or six times during the process, from arriving to leaving. I cannot get my head around the fact that in a medical theatre an item is being put into someone’s body and there is no cross-referencing, numbering or double- and triple-checking. Surely to God that goes on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Then how could this have happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I get that, yet it happened. It is astounding. It was only picked up when a query went in from a concerned citizen, essentially. It was not picked up by any of CHI's internal or external processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: That is grand and I totally accept Dr. Goldman’s bona fides on that but I am trying to find out whether there have been other instances. I cannot take the witnesses’ word that there have not been, simply because this has happened in spite of all their cross-references, checks and balance and so on. They cannot definitively tell me there are not other devices that were not of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Is CHI doing anything to review other procedures to double satisfy the witnesses in their conviction there are not other examples?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Ms Hardiman said she never received the letter Deputy Shortall referred to. In that event, why did she feel it necessary to withdraw from the process? If she never received the letter, surely she did not need to withdraw from the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Is the deputy CEO here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Why not? Did he or she not feel it was appropriate to attend the committee as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: Is Ms Hardiman confident the deputy CEO did not attend any of the meetings where these springs were discussed?

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I am conscious the Acting Chair is giving me time, so I am not going to delay. There are three issues that need to be addressed. First, we need a campaign to remind drivers of driver behaviour. Unfortunately, many accidents are caused by drivers breaking the rules of the road, not taking their time and not observing simple and decent driver behaviour. Second, we need to engage with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I concur with Deputy Durkan and the Chairman on that issue. I am glad that Dr. Henry assured us that some work has been done to examine the matter but it needs to be kept under close observation. I checked the INMO trolley count and learned that there are 124 people on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick this morning but we have not reached October yet. Clearly, the issues in...