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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?

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

Seán Crowe: There are three more speakers looking to come in. They will have eight minutes each, or maybe less. We will come to an end then. Is that okay or does Mr. Watt need a break?

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

Seán Crowe: Okay. We will break for 15 minutes.

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

Seán Crowe: We do not have time for further questions. I call Deputy Lahart.

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

Seán Crowe: I think we have come to the end and we have run out of time. I thank the representatives from the Department of Health and from the HSE for their engagement with the committee on the important matter of the implementation of Sláintecare reforms. The committee will continue to engage with the matter of Sláintecare and we look forward to the next meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that contract cleaners in Tallaght University Hospital have not yet received the pandemic recognition payment. [28762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (13 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline what training is available to teachers and special education teachers exclusively on assistive technology used by blind and vision impaired students who accredits this training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27774/23]