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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, and his officials for attending our meeting this morning. It was very useful. I apologise if we drifted off the main issues but I believe the issues were relevant to the Estimate.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Seán Crowe: Do we have a rough overall figure at this stage? Are we talking about thousands or tens of thousands of people?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is on money spent. When Mr. Gloster and Mr. Watt were before the committee the general consensus was that additional beds are needed. The political will is there, including on the part of the Minister, to try to speed up this process. We all expressed a general frustration with the slow pace of the process. The Minister mentioned planning and so on but we all know of projects where...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has an indicative date for the implementation of section 6 of the of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014, specifically the recording of a father’s name on a birth certificate. [15689/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The minutes of the committee meetings on 21 and 22 March 2023 have been circulated for members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is a discussion with representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE on the implementation of Sláintecare reforms. To commence the committee's consideration of the matter, I am pleased to welcome Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General; Mr. Derek Tierney, assistant secretary; Ms Rachel Kenna, chief nursing officer; and Ms Sarah Treleaven, principal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Watt. I invite Mr. Gloster to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. On behalf of the committee, I wish to be associated with his remarks about Mr. Stephen Mulvany. I thank everyone for co-operating with and supporting the work of this committee. The first speaker for Fine Gael is Deputy Durkan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Does Mr. Gloster wish to add to any of those comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: On the RHAs, will you-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Colm Burke is going into detail on a specific case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I know the Deputy has raised the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Just yesterday I was listening to a representative of An Garda Síochána talking about the people who were leaving the Garda. They were starting to do surveys of members who were leaving. It would make sense for that to be in practice in the future so the HSE can get a better picture. We all have anecdotal evidence as to why people are leaving but that would be a really useful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses. Other members are looking to come in, but I wish to welcome the progress that has been made regarding Sláintecare. I have gone through many of the big-ticket items relating to it. I welcome the fact that the RHAs will progress early next year. It is all positive news, but I share the concern that it is a ten-year implementation plan and that we are already six...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have seen during Covid the new applications that have come through. As I said, we should promote those people who were innovators and who came up with those models during the pandemic. We tend to go outside all the time, but if the talent is in house it should be nurtured, encouraged and moved forward. It would be good if we could come back to that at some stage. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: It was suggested in some of the documents that there were delays in the review enhancement model for industrial relations. There are big challenges there with recruitment and so on. Are the witnesses looking at changing that whole model, modernising and trying to cut through some of the industrial relations difficulties we have had with some of the unions and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I need to cut people off because a vote has been called. I apologise. I really appreciate the time and effort people have put in this morning. I thank representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE for their engagement with the committee on the important matter of the implementation of Sláintecare. The committee will continue to engage with the matter of Sláintecare...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Staffing levels in the health service have been a problem for decades and successive Governments have failed to get to grips with the fundamental issues of recruitment and retention. At the core of these issues is the working conditions our healthcare professionals, in particular nurses and young doctors, are forced to face every day. When gruelling 24-hour shifts or the threat of violent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the meetings of 7 and 8 March 2023 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to engage with Mr. Bernard Gloster, the newly appointed CEO of the HSE, to learn about his strategic priorities for the position. I welcome Mr. Gloster and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. On behalf of the committee, I would like to be associated with those remarks with regard to the interim CEO, Mr. Stephen Mulvany. He was very helpful to the committee in its deliberations during that five-month period. I am going to head straight to members and to lead us off is Senator Kyne.