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Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Regarding hiring and retaining professionals, how many posts are to be filled? Is there difficulty in filling some posts? Is the lack of appointments causing its own challenges and difficulties?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: We have been told, in the mid west in particular, that children were "lost in the system", to use that awful term, because of staff shortages caused by people retiring or resigning and the delay before a replacement was hired. Are we in a position now where that type of vulnerability cannot happen again?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: That is great. I have one more question. In terms of oversight of the work the HSE will be doing into the future, will the witnesses give their view on how strong that oversight is? Clearly, we do not want a situation in which the Mental Health Commission will have to carry out these types of in-depth drill-downs in to get to the bottom of issues. Is there anything the committee can do in...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: That is good. I thank the witnesses and the Chairman.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Regarding the Mental Health Commission interim report, am I correct in reading that before the interim report was published, the HSE had become aware of some of the findings and issues as the commission became aware of them? In effect, that there was an ongoing dialogue ahead of the interim report being published.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Yesterday, the health unions, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, SIPTU and Fórsa. appeared before the Joint Committee on Health to discuss the abuse of and attacks on nurses and members of the medical professions. In 2021, there were more than 4,500 attacks on staff on the front line of the health service. Of those, almost 500 were...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I was a student in University College Dublin when Niamh Bhreathnach was the then Minister for Education. I remember there was a blind student who could not get her books in braille and Niamh Bhreathnach landed out to the college unannounced and, needless to say, the problem was resolved. The woman was a doer. May she rest in peace. I rise today because it has been brought to my attention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Is there a breakdown even of the figures Dr. Kilgallen has to hand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Is there even adequate CCTV in hospitals? A picture paints a thousand words. I agree that it should not all be up to the person who has been assaulted. Is the CCTV up to standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I am conscious of time. My final comment relates to what was proposed by Deputy Burke. The joint policing authorities in the local authorities were to create an engagement between the police, local authorities and communities in order that there would be more community involvement in and understanding of policing. That model would not necessarily work in this because one is talking about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank our guests. The discussion has shone a light on an appalling issue. I propose that we hold another public meeting on this issue and invite in representatives of the HSA, the HSE and An Garda Síochána. I have no doubt the HSA will say this is a resources issue and that is probably correct, but it is given a budget and it is supposed to prioritise where that budget is most...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I very much welcome the announcement by the Minister for Finance on the extension of the temporary business energy support scheme. It has helped thousands of businesses in rural and urban parts of the country to deal with the exorbitant cost of energy. There is one flaw when it comes to businesses in rural areas that use gas and that are not on a mains or metered. Those on metered gas...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Of course I should acknowledge St. Brigid's Day. It will be a bank holiday dedicated to my wife.

Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I join the Acting Chairperson in welcoming the group from St. Christopher's Services, a great facility in County Longford. I welcome also the Minister of State. This is a difficult and challenging subject and she is dealing with decades of underfunding. Trying to scale up quickly is a big challenge. When the report was published last year regarding the situation in Kerry, we were all...

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges: - the unprecedented level of spending on health in 2023; more than €24bn has been committed to our health services nationally; - that total health expenditure has been increasing steadily over the last decade; - the significant investment in the UL Hospitals Group; - a number of capital projects have been completed at UL...

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to the Seanad this evening. His presence to address this critical Private Members' motion speaks volumes of his commitment to this issue. It is a critical for us in the mid-west. For some years people in the mid-west have suffered considerably as a result of the overcrowding in the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick. It is...

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: If Sinn Féin goes into government will it open the 24-hour accident and emergency unit in Ennis?

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: I just asked a question.

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: No.

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: Who cracked a joke?