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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: The Minister of State is welcome. I thank the Office of the Cathaoirleach for choosing this matter. We debated this topic when sittings were taking place in the convention centre. In that context, I may be making the same speech several years later on funding issues relating to Galway County Council. Most of us are former members of local authorities. We know the range of services that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I acknowledge the supports that have been provided but they are not enough. They are way short of the mark. The funding allocated from budget 2022 and to Galway County Council works out at €802 per capita, which is the second lowest per capitafigure. Kildare County Council is the lowest and Meath County Council is just above that. Per...

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

Seán Kyne: The Deputy Leader is welcome this morning. First, I express my sympathies to the people of Türkiye and Syria on the tragedy there and the unfolding rescue and recovery attempts following the devastating earthquake. While we have issues in this country, thankfully we do not have such geological incidents that cause the hardship and devastation we have witnessed in those countries. I...

Seanad: The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Bill: Referral to Joint Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: I move: That the application for a private Bill entitled The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Bill, being a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Charter of 1861 under which the Royal Hibernian Academy is incorporated and to alter the provisions relating to membership thereof and to provide for other matters connected therewith, be referred to a Joint Committee on the Bill which,...

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

Seán Kyne: I welcome all the guests this morning. They paint a very harrowing picture on behalf of their staff. I acknowledge the advocacy they have shown today on behalf of the members of staff they represent. Ms Ní Sheaghdha mentioned in her opening statement attacks on midwives. Pardon my ignorance but by whom, exactly, or where, how and when are attacks on midwives? I am just trying to...

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

Seán Kyne: Is Ms Ní Sheaghdha suggesting that the HSA has the powers but does not want to get involved in that, or that it needs additional powers through legislation?

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

Seán Kyne: Ms Chambers mentioned parents or perhaps it was patients.

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

Seán Kyne: Obviously, parents are very concerned for the children. Ms Chambers believes the aggression and the assaults, or a proportion of that, is based on parents seeking quicker treatment for their children in emergency rooms.

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

Seán Kyne: From Ms Chambers’s experience with regard to patients and the people who accompany patients, how much could drink and drugs be responsible at weekends?

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

Seán Kyne: Not a parent, but in general - let us say, a patient.

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

Seán Kyne: Okay, but in general, within the hospital system.

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

Seán Kyne: I am sure there will be continued debates on staffing and we are all trying to work to achieve that. Irrespective of staffing, there is no excuse for an assault on any staff member within the health service or any other service. I accept that people are frustrated due to delays but there is zero excuse for taking that out on staff, and that should be a given. We have discussed workforce...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: The general scheme of the registration of short-term tourist letting Bill is undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny at the moment. In his opening statement on 25 January, the principal officer at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage stated: As the committee is aware, large numbers of properties have been withdrawn from the long-term rental market in recent years for use as...

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

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister. I acknowledge my colleagues, Senators Conway, Byrne and Ahearn, for tabling this comprehensive Private Members' motion. It is unusual to have such a specific regional topic brought before the Houses. It is important to acknowledge that, because the Fine Gael group decided to use its slot, which comes up every number of weeks, to highlight a specific hospital in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the team from the HSE. Let me give the testimony of an individual I know. We will call him Paddy. He is not even 50. A number of years ago, he was not feeling well for about three months and eventually asked his partner to ring the doctor to make an appointment. She rang the doctor and the doctor said Paddy was no longer a member of the practice. She said Paddy was but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: Is there a difference between men and women? Anecdotally, men are less likely to get regular checkups? Is that in fact true? Is there a change or improvement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: Reference was made to a welcome fall in the mortality rate, which is likely to be attributable to a combination of factors, including reduced incidence, earlier detection and better treatments. Reference was also made to the importance of tobacco controls. Is Dr. Faul concerned that this trend is reversing somewhat among younger people now? Are the controls declining in impact, even though...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: I am from Galway. The incidence of certain cancers is higher in the west than for the rest of the country, on average. Professor Michael Kerin and others have plans for a new cancer centre, with over 220 beds, on the grounds of University Hospital Galway as part of the national development plan. I am sure the HSE is aware - I can see our guest nodding - of those plans, supports them and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Kyne: I certainly welcome that the HSE is fully supportive of these plans. They have been talked about for a long time. It is important now they are advanced through the system in relation to the cost-benefit analysis and the planning applications, which are outside the control of circumstances or whatever. It is absolutely vital that there is equality across the country and, through the work of...