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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Presented where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Right. Is has not been presented anywhere else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: That would be helpful. This is quite a contentious issue in my own area of the southeast and Waterford in the context of UHW. The 2021 report states that the data that is there regarding STEMI is only related to the time from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days per week, and it states that UHW moved to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. five days a week. The second session we are having relates to recruitment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It does. I see from what happens in the cardiology department and other areas in UHW that the staff team and management are able to achieve numbers that are not being achieved in other hospitals. They have achieved that with fewer staff and less of a budget. That begs the question; if the numbers and presentations are as high and are increasing and the staff complement is considerably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Ms Dalton mentioned the position across the Border. The next session relates to recruitment and I am interested in the opinions of our witnesses as clinicians on this. If we ignore the embargo and the challenges it has had for a moment, if there was no restriction and no budget, would we be able to fill all the positions that are there in the field of our witnesses? Is there availability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is because it is not presenting at regional centres and it is more common that a person presents with those kinds of incidents at a general hospital, as opposed to a model 4 hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I mean no disrespect, but none of us wants to see the witnesses. However, it is good to know that, if we do need to see them, there are more people coming through the pipeline.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Chair. To take off from where Dr. Lyons finished, it would be helpful to have that wording because it is not in his opening statement I have taken a few notes on what he said. As regards the minority report, was it just two members of the commission who constituted that minority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The wording is not in the statement in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The way Dr. Lyons describes this is interesting. I would like to know whether the minority report was put to the overall commission. Dr. Lyons cannot answer that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: What was the time lag between both reports, that is, the report at the original meeting versus the minority report, as we are terming it here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I will make one comment before Mr. Boyle comes in. I read Mr. O'Flynn's opening statement last night. Much of what he said I could say myself. It is a topic about which I have an open mind. I am on record as saying so. While I do not feel I have been fully convinced of the need for it in full, it is not something that I have ruled out either. The Housing Commission analysed it in far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is important to clarify that. Home for Good has been before this committee before where we had these frank and honest discussions. The question I wish to ask Mr. Boyle or, perhaps, Dr. Casey relates to the points that both Dr. Lyons and Mr. O'Flynn made in their argument that this constitutional amendment is not required and that this can be achieved without it. If there is to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Sure, but I am sure Housing for Good looked at the wording of the minority report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I would like to know its opinion on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I am sorry to cut Mr. Boyle off but my time is up. I am sure the Chair will give me just as much latitude as the previous speaker. My specific question relates to the wording in the minority report. A different view is expressed in it, and that is fine. However, a wording is suggested in the report to cover circumstances where certain action might be taken. This is the Joint Committee on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is important to differentiate between the individual and wider society. I remember asking Mr. Stanley a question the last time Home for Good appeared before this committee in relation to the issue of individual litigation. That certainly was not the focus of what Home for Good was proposing.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I want to make a number of points on the section related to the definitions in the Bill. I welcome this long overdue legislation to reform part of the Seanad. The Minister has been quite clear, as has the Minister of State, that this is a process. This is not the end of what Seanad reform will be but it is a significant stepping stone. I am fortunate enough to have voted in the 2009,...