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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: For the information of members, the Joint Committee on Health is sitting at the same time as this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: I have not managed bilocation yet. I am sure that all the members will miss me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: I welcome all our guests to this session. In the next session, representatives of the HSE will be before us, so if the witnesses want to prompt anything to me and my colleagues, I am sure we will be able to facilitate that for the second session. I apologise for being late; I also had to attend a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. A number of us have two committees on at the same...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: It would be highly more likely, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Does the lack of full provision of 20-week to 22-week scans mean many cases are missed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: I also have a few questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Perhaps in the next round of answers, the two Marys, for want of a better phrase, might be given the chance to answer the questions Deputy Kelleher and I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Ms Leahy made the point very clearly that where there was good management or leadership, it was much more likely that trainees would stay within the system. I was wondering if there were other reasons for this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for attending to discuss this critical topic. We heard some very good presentations earlier from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. I would go as far as to say they were some of the best I have heard during my time in public office. I hope that our current witnesses were listening in or that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is for the Department of Health to decide.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Therefore, Mr. Woods was in favour of it being included, but it did not make it in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Did Mr. Woods ask for it to be included?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: We are here to get answers. Either Mr. Woods did or he did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Will Mr. Woods ask the person in the HSE who was a party to them and write back to the committee with a "yes" or a "no" answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Woods said he listened to the INMO. Does he agree or disagree with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Woods said he had listened to the INMO's presentation; therefore, he is aware of what it stated. Does he agree with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: There is a big difference between 12 and 350. Perhaps Mr. Woods and his team might confer a little more on this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: This is incredible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: What is the answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)
Alan Kelly: Therefore, what is the answer?