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Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dail: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto. I thank the Minister for Health and his officials for attending today's meeting.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Does the Minister wish to respond to Deputy Cullinane's point?

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank the members and the Minister for their co-operation this morning. I will probably be reading this out in my sleep tonight.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Two other members have indicated. Perhaps we will finish then. I am watching the clock so I ask them to try to be as brief as they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senators Kyne and Conway. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, minutes of the committee's meetings of 30 May and 31 May have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to meet with representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE to receive an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I invite Mr. Gloster to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I invite members of the committee and other Members to discuss matters with the witnesses. I call Deputy Colm Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: We need to move on from County Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I think Deputy Cullinane should move on. He is directing questions on an issue that is clearly a ministerial responsibility. It was the Minister who announced it. The Deputy is asking officials to respond in the name of the Minister. It would be better to move on. He has made the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Okay, the question was asked on the Estimate cost of the implementation of Sláintecare. The Department wrote back to us on 30 March. The cumulative investment in Sláintecare reforms and new developments over the period of 2020 to 2023 amounts to €1.995 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: That letter was sent on 30 March.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: There is a breakdown of Sláintecare and the potential funding over that three-year period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Senator Black is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I would like to return to the medical card issue. As a committee, we said we would put it on the work programme at some stage and do a session on it. One of the reasons I suggested we should try to focus on it today is the number of cases we get as Deputies but also because of what Deputy Gino Kenny said about that document that went back ten years or whatever it is. There is clearly a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is what I am saying. It needs-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Hold on for a second. That is why I am saying that we as a committee might look at those recommendations, but the onus is on the person with the illness to try to supply the information. That is what I am asking, if there is a way of looking at that. It is not always possible for that individual to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I know, I take that and apologies, but I think it was important to articulate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Okay. I am going to move to Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Did Mr. Watt want to come back in?