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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Martin Conway: I too would like to support the section 39 workers. We all know the phenomenal work that is done by many of these workers.It is a great pity to see that they are out on dispute. I sincerely hope this will be resolved as soon as possible. I wish to raise just one more issue quickly. I call on the Minister for Transport to provide funding to Irish Rail to upgrade the Ennis–Limerick...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Martin Conway: Year in, year out, the line has been closed at certain times of the year due to flooding, and people have ended up getting a bus from Ennis to Limerick and back. People buy a train ticket expecting to get a train. It is a wonderful service. For a few million euro, this problem could be resolved forever and a day. It has gone on long enough. The railway line from Limerick to Galway, via...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: The Minister of State is welcome to the House. This is an issue that affects many rural communities, but especially those in my county of Clare. There has been underinvestment in wastewater facilities there for decades under all Governments. There are many pockets of County Clare where development is precluded simply because there is not proper wastewater infrastructure. We are in a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, very much. I know he is only delivering the message on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. Reading between the lines, it is quite worrying because the expert panel that was appointed, which has evaluated all of the projects, could turn around and recommend that none of the projects should receive funding. What will happen then? Is...

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

Martin Conway: I welcome the Taoiseach to the House. In my capacity as health spokesperson for Fine Gael, one issue that predominates discussions on a regular basis is family carers. People who give up their careers to look after loved ones find themselves in a situation in which they do not get paid for it is not acceptable in a modern society. We need not just to radically overhaul the whole means test...

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.