Results 941-960 of 8,649 for speaker:Seán Crowe

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: -----I am asking members to direct their questions to the Minister.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: No, I am not saying that at all, but questions are supposed to be asked through the Minister. He can then ask his officials to respond.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I will follow up on the State claims issue. Is it recurring with the same medical officials or the same hospitals? Is there any pattern? Is there more than one claim against one individual? If there is, is there a system in place for that? I give as an example a hospital or whatever where there are surgeries that have to be repeated because there were mistakes made or whatever else. I...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is important that, rather than getting the message today that the number of claims is up and so on, we should be looking at trying to fix the system. As public representatives we have all got those cases of people who felt that they were hard done by or that something went wrong within the medical system. We get those cases constantly. Anecdotally we all hear stories dissuading people...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: With respect, I do not think the Minister gets it that the medical card scheme seems to be collapsing. The information we are getting is that more and more dentists are leaving the scheme every day. The fact that there is no additional funding for it means the morale of dentists who are in the public system is rock bottom. That is what we are told by those who work in the system. There is...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: There is clearly a problem within the school system. Those children are waiting for longer and longer. The longer the wait the more difficult it is to treat the child.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I agree with what the Minister said, that we need to hire more public dentists and bring them into the public system. The medical card issue was mentioned and I accept what the Minister said as regards a hierarchy of health. We accept that with those who are terminally ill, particularly those who have cancer, it is only right and proper that they have access to a medical card. One of...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Yes. That is what I am saying.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The preparation basically clears out a person's system. Maybe it is something the Minister can put on the agenda. I have raised this before and it has to do with a societal issue, namely, obesity. I came across a situation where the waiting list for the obesity management clinic was five to six years. I raised it with the Taoiseach yesterday. Clearly the system is broken there. We...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: My final point does not relate to this case, but it is worrying that more people are turning to the Internet and buying drugs online. They are putting their lives in danger with some of the stuff they are buying. I am glad the issue was raised and the Minister is looking at it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: We will have a comfort break now for ten minutes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The issue of new drugs was raised earlier.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: We need to end the meeting. We did not really get into the capital expenditure issue. I have a question relating to supplementary capital funding of the amount of €21.7 million being provided in respect of Brexit capital infrastructure projects being undertaken by the OPW on behalf of the HSE. I ask the Minister to give us a note on that On the other capital projects, I believe...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is great. Some members have requested additional information be sent to the committee in writing. We look forward to receiving that when it is sent to the clerk to the committee and circulated to members. I thank the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and their officials, for their attendance and for giving the evidence here today. The Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2023: Vote 38 - Health.

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Government is pushing the boat out every day on that.

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, is not renowned for his speed and action on any issues but the triple lock is to be dropped without delay, we are told. Strangely, he only said last November that he did not believe in removing it. Thankfully, opinion polls suggest that Irish people get it and treasure our heritage as a neutral country. When it has been tested by EU treaties in the past,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I have a constituent who is a farmer and lives alone. He had a prosthetic leg and, for genetic reasons, had his second leg removed. He piled on weight while he was in hospital. He was referred to the centre for obesity management on 8 September 2022 and was triaged in September 2022 as an urgent case. He was told he should anticipate an appointment in approximately five years' time....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the new S8 bus route bypasses UCD, Dundrum town centre, and IADT, leaving many hundreds of students, workers, and shoppers without direct access to their places of work, study and recreation; and what public transport options will be made available to these persons. [51952/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the solutions being considered for residents to improve connectivity via public transport to the thousands of existing and new residents of Dublin south west, particularly those residents who do not live close to a Luas line in Firhouse, Ballycullen, Scholarstown, Knocklyon, Ballyboden, Edmonstown, and Rathfarnham and who rely on bus...