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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our visitors and thank Mr. Woods for his presentation. I will deal almost exclusively with the report on South Tipperary General Hospital. Obviously, I have a particular interest in it as I am elected in Tipperary South, but I am also a former employee of the South Eastern Health Board and I was manager of the hospital for quite a number of years. First, I welcome the report. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank Dr. Coulter-Smith and Dr. Sheehan for what were really very detailed presentations. As I said as late as last evening in the Chamber, I acknowledge the background not only to the maternity service but to the health service is that we have lost €4 billion in funding, 11,000 staff and 2,000 beds in the past number of years and, on top of that, there has been the moratorium. Of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I am not sure either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: What is Dr. Coulter-Smith proposing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: Is Dr. Coulter-Smith saying that 4,000 to 5,000 deliveries could be handled by units liaising with or forming parts of other units?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: Dr. Coulter-Smith accepts that some of the services that his document correctly suggests are necessary can be provided from a region or centre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Babies Born to Mothers with Substance Abuse Issues: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank Dr. Adrienne Foran for her presentation on this important service, which is delivered with compassion and passion. Are there any services similar to this available outside Dublin?

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: They health service has been devastated over the past number of years. We have seen €4 billion taken out of the budgets and 11,000 staff gone. In this current period, started by Fianna Fáil and the Greens and continued on by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, we lost in the order of 1,600 to 2,000 beds, and we had previously lost approximately 3,000 beds. Those cuts have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I join with the Chairman and the other members of the committee in expressing our disappointment, frustration and a certain amount of anger at the non-attendance here this afternoon of management from St. Vincent's hospital, which is absolutely unacceptable. I would like that message to go out in the strongest possible terms from the meeting. I thank Mr. Cullen for attending. Will he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Is there an internal audit function?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the HSE for coming before the committee. The allegations that have already been made are very worrying. The real concern of the committee, and what is at the back of everybody's mind, is whether this is the tip of the iceberg. What we hope to have from the HSE this afternoon is confirmation of the safeguards that are in place to ensure that allegations such as those we have heard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank our guests for the presentation and the briefing on this issue, which is one of concern to the committee and it is also a concern, on wider basis, in regard to the health services. The presentation appears, to some extent, to paint a picture of difficulties almost amounting to a crisis level within the organisation. The presentation states, "This has created uncertainty and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Am I correct that 20% of the staff have left within the first six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Will all of those staff be replaced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Currently, three of the 11 posts have been filled on a temporary basis. Does the witness have any idea when the other posts will be filled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Is there a target date for when we will be back to a manageable situation? Will it be this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Services for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: This should be the final vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Services for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Chairman, Deputy Buttimer and the members of the committee for agreeing to hear about the south Tipperary pilot project, the five steps to living well with dementia. This project has done excellent work in south Tipperary and has been hugely successful. I thank all the delegates for the very thorough, informative and detailed presentations we have heard. The south Tipperary...

Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. I thank Deputy Tom Fleming for tabling a very detailed, important and significant motion. The core of the motion relates to independent living for the elderly to ensure they can remain in their homes and communities for as long as possible. That is something to which we all aspire and which we wish to be supported. We all want supports and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (15 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: 40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 8 July 2015, if she will examine the policy, budgetary and operational implications of the family income supplement with a view to amending the regulation accordingly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29240/15]