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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: All of that is needed before travelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Lastly, this is probably a naive question, but does it get better as one gets older or does it get worse? Is there any research in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: As Ms Nic Liam was saying, it can affect every organ in the body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I greatly appreciate the witnesses sharing their stories. Do any members wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: My final question relates to outcomes from this meeting. There are a number of things we as a committee will do. We tend to hop from one crisis to another in respect of many issues, but we considered which ones we had not covered as a health committee. Members were asked what their priority was and agreed on endometriosis. There are clearly advocates among the committee on the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I cannot give that commitment right now but we can certainly discuss it at our next private meeting. This meeting was a priority decided on by members. I think the best way of moving the issue forward is that when we get in the Minister and the departmental officials, we will start asking them questions about it and put on record that we have concerns about it. We will produce a report on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: The association has a website and can be contacted. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank the representatives of Endometriosis Association of Ireland for engaging with the committee on the issue of endometriosis and sharing their personal stories, which we appreciate. They will resonate with people at home in that there is a human element to this and sufferers are not a statistic but citizens of this State. The engagement was very useful and the committee will have to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) is without ASD classes from second class up to sixth class, that the current school building the ASD unit is situated within has been deemed unsuitable by Department inspectors, and that the principal has tried without success to engage with the school capital appraisal section; if support and...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Long-term residential nursing home care is yet another aspect of the health service that we have surrendered to the private sector and it is ordinary people who are suffering the consequences. Increasingly, nursing homes are considering leaving the Fair Deal scheme and we are losing more and more bed capacity as nursing homes close. Some 31 have closed since 2020 with the loss of almost...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Deputy, allow the Minister to reply.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Minister to reply, please.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Let the Minister reply.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Before we move on, I welcome our visitors from Portroe National School in Tipperary, who are in the Public Gallery. We need to be on our best behaviour for the schoolchildren.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I will have to ask the Minister of State to finish there.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I apologise to the Taoiseach as I was in the Chair in the House this morning. I am Chair of the health committee. I welcome the recent announcement of the €50 million investment in the North via the Government's shared island project and the €45 million investment in the Derry campus of Ulster University, which will have a positive impact on the local economy as well as a...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Huge factors in the causes of crime involving young people are poverty, deprivation and disadvantage and, I suppose, the normalisation of certain crime in our communities. Young people and children often fall victim to those who exploit that poverty and use them as drug couriers or sellers. My party colleague, Deputy Ward, has introduced legislation that will make the coercion of a child...

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Due to a difficulty this morning, we will suspend for 15 minutes.

Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: The difficulty is that the Minister has not turned up on time. That is the big challenge we are facing.