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- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: The next item is No. 128, motion No. 10 regarding public water connection charges. I ask Members to please note the time limits. Under a new procedure approved by the House, the combined speeches of the proposer and seconder shall not exceed 16 minutes, and all other Senators shall have six minutes. I call on Senator Garvey to move the motion and understand that she is sharing time.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: I thank Senator Boyhan. There are no Members here from the Fianna Fáil group. From the Fine Gael group we have Senator John Cummins who has six minutes.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: I welcome to the Public Gallery a group of retired members of An Garda Síochána from Nenagh, County Tipperary. Cuirimid fáilte rompu go léir anseo tráthnóna inniu. The Minister of State has 15 minutes to make his contribution.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State. We will move now to the Fianna Fáil slot. I understand Senator Fitzpatrick is sharing time with Senator Murphy.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: The Senators have four minutes and two minutes.
- Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister. I have been dipping in and out of the contributions over the last while. I listened to the Minister's opening contribution. He talked about the additional hospital beds that have been provided, which are certainly welcome. One of the challenges faced at the start of Covid was critical care capacity and how that compared with other countries across Europe. Three...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: When does the Minister anticipate reaching the 350 beds? It is welcome progress from where we were.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Some 446 is the objective.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: It is imperative for those beds to be maintained somewhere. There was obviously the physical space and the capacity to deal with patients who occupied those beds. It would be a backwards step if, for the coming winter, we were down ten beds when the system was able to cope with them last winter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. McCallion. The Minister said he is fast-tracking the development of new elective surgical hubs in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford to address shorter-term capacity demands. What sort of timescales, locations and so on does the Minister have in mind for that? The elective hospitals have been decided on for Cork, Dublin and Galway. They are medium-term. For these...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Is Mr. Tierney talking about modular units?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: What kind of bed capacity is Mr. Tierney talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Two and four theatres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Obviously there are day beds for recovery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: Staffing and recruitment is an ongoing issue. Is there an improvement or a worsening? Is it more difficult compared to a year ago on the international scene? That is where the focus is in terms of recruitment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: The Minister might look into this. The special pandemic payment has still not been paid to a certain cohort employed through Aramark in University Hospital Galway, particularly those who provided meals to patients in the hospital during that period of time. They have gotten the forms and filled them out but it is a long process. I ask the Minister to intervene in any way he can with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Seán Kyne: They got the forms from Aramark earlier this year but they still have not been paid.