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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.

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

Seán Crowe: These questions are probably more suitable for the other meeting we are going to have. The Deputy is going into detail in relation to the Cork area and Mr. Gloster may not have the detail or may have to backup staff with him today. The idea of today was to give an overall vision of how we see the job moving forward. I think it is a bit unfair for the Deputy to be looking for such detail,...

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

Seán Crowe: In that case pose the question around forward planning rather than specifics about the Cork region.

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

Seán Crowe: I will make a couple of observations. I begin by welcoming the fact that there was an announcement this morning relating to the drug Kaftrio, which is a life-changing drug and one of the issues the committee raised. The committee received a lot of correspondence on it and realised the importance of it being approved. One of the things that came up at the committee was that the slowness...

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

Seán Crowe: The important thing is that we do not plan to fail but many times we do. We plan for now rather than for the future. We need to plan for now and also for the future. Every second week we speak about the crisis in University Hospital Limerick. If we do not put in the number of beds that are clearly needed in the hospital system there we will fail again. If the plan does not cover a...

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

Seán Crowe: I will focus on capacity. Last week the Irish Pharmacy Union came before the committee. Its representatives spoke about a possible role for Irish pharmacists and the fact that polls have suggested they are the most trusted healthcare providers in Ireland. They showed their mettle during the Covid epidemic with regard to vaccinations and more. They spoke about other jurisdictions and the...