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Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Looking at the symptoms, every one of us has had something like that. It is something to realise it could be something more serious and that it is in many cases. Deputy McAuliffe is here too. He has raised this through parliamentary questions and I thank him for that. The big concern I have is that so little money seems to be involved here. As Mr. Hughes said, we raise awareness for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: -----if there was not an awareness campaign. I will ask Mr. Hughes more questions later and will let members speak. I ask Senator Murphy if I can call Deputy McAuliffe, since he is here now.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: He is coming in and out from the Committee of Public Accounts.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Early intervention is the key. Given how much money would be saved by not letting the infection develop, as well as the potential for deaths and major health complications, that would pay for any campaign, as far as I can see.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I do not think there is any doubt that the success of the radio advertisement is enough evidence for any Minister or Department to see that advancing it onto national television could have an unbelievable impact. The figures are that annually, 50 million people worldwide get sepsis, of whom 11 million die. Two out of every five cases are children. These are frightening statistics. As a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We can call in the HSE. We can do the information session to help move things on. Why has the name of this been changed in the past couple of years? It is now called sepsis. Has anyone any idea?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: As has been said, Mr. Hughes, if there is early intervention and signs-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: -----there is no need to be in those hospital settings if that is where the infection kicks off.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Following on from what Deputy Devlin has said, and this is not a criticism of anyone in the health service, but is it widespread within the health service that this service does not recognise the symptoms of this condition?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: In the running of any campaign, upon which I believe everybody would be in agreement, one of the striking images from the speed ads, for example, which are on the television is when the family members are actually talking. It is the human factor, like Mr. Hughes's story, which very much hits home to people when they are watching ads on the television. I have two quick questions before I...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I congratulate the foundation for the work it does and I would say I am speaking for everybody in saying that. Does Deputy Buckley wish to make a further contribution?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: The Deputy is taking the words I had written down here. The money that has been spent is actually frightening given it is having no effect. Something needs to change if an agency is spending the money that is being spent. Eight deaths a day is a frightening statistic for something that is so easily preventable. To be spending that kind of money, and those kinds of statistics are still...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We are very sorry about what happened to Mr. Hughes and his wife, Karen Phoenix, and their family. If there is anything that we can do as a committee, we will. We will try to reduce those figures as much as we possibly can. We will help them try to raise awareness of sepsis. We will suspend the meeting for five minutes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We have two petitions for consideration today. First, is Petition No. 21 of 2021 entitled Taking in Charge for Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to the request that the local authority takes in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross in Tipperary. This petition has been before the Committee on Public Petitions a number of times. The petitioner...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We will write to Irish Water and invite its representatives in to a forthcoming meeting. We will try to get answers and see what the story is. The second petition is Petition No. 60 of 2022 entitled Save Clifton District Hospital, for Ms Anne McDonagh. This petition relates to a request that the HSE stop the services and resources of the hospital being systematically stripped and that the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I concur with that. Looking at some of the responses and thinking of other issues that have come up before this committee and all around the country, it seems that some responses are copy and pasted. Two words that stick out to me in this response are "design stage", which we have seen in other places. A fortune is being spent doing designs and drawings with no indication of what will...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I concur with that. The work they do on our behalves is entitled to be acknowledged.

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I hope the Minister of State enjoyed her visit to Tipperary and especially Cashel a couple of weeks ago. I saw her going into Walsh’s butchers before she left town and I hope she got something nice there. I am pleased to speak on this Bill today. In my area, just like in many communities across the country, the value of credit unions cannot be overstated. The purpose behind...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this motion to the House. I welcome the opportunity to discuss it because County Tipperary is particularly affected by the Government's failure to support ambulance services and paramedics. The HSE's standards require an ambulance response time of 19 minutes or less for 80% of life-threatening incidents. In Tipperary that is far from the case. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: On numerous occasions, I have raised the availability of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes and the challenges faced by parents in accessing those classes for their children. In my county of Tipperary, Carrick-on-Suir is one of the areas that has been the focus of my concern since I was elected to this House. For many years, parents have been faced with uncertainty at the start of each...