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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The private route to reducing waiting lists is short term. It is a contradiction then. We need to build capacity in the service itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: This morning's discussion was very useful and will certainly help us with our deliberations on the roll-out of Sláintecare. The committee will try to follow up on some of the points made, particularly with regard to the five pieces of legislation that form the pillars to hold this up. We may be able to find out what is happening there and whether any work is being done in that regard....

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The chief fire officer for Dublin Fire Brigade told the Joint Committee on Health last week that the combined resources of the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade cannot meet current ambulance demands in Dublin city and county. I sat through the meeting so I know what he actually said, which seems at odds with what the Minister was saying. You would think that would be a wake-up call for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senator Frances Black. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 14 and 15 February 2023 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to meet the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade to consider issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: On that point, is the committee right to go to Dublin City Council and the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: When it comes to this report, I do not think that is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I would like to be associated with those remarks. Both services save people's lives every day. As part of that, many of their staff must see horrific scenes that they must bring home with them at night. I am aware of an incident in my constituency. The responders, who included ambulance service staff, are still dealing with what they saw that day. We are conscious of the risks the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Morton might comment on the age profile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: What is the average age of the members of the Dublin Fire Brigade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is the case right across the services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: A comment was made about people not contacting their GP or going through that route and, instead, calling the emergency services and that there is an increase in that. The acting CEO of the HSE was before the committee and he said there is a belief among some sections of the population that if someone rings 999 and he or she is picked up by an ambulance, he or she will get into the hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have had people in here to discuss the winter plan. Additional moneys were made available for the winter plan, including €7 million for the pathfinder projects, which our guests have talked about this morning. I think we all accept that the allocation is a welcome development and the more we can spread that across the State the better. Has the initiative had an impact on hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have dealt with this funding issue before, whereby funding, which was allocated and put towards the winter plan, has not been spent. I welcome the fact that this money has been spent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have reached the end. I thank the representatives the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade for their assistance on this very important matter. I echo all the earlier calls by members of this committee to ask the organisations to convey our appreciation to their members for their work and commitment. As Mr. Kelley has said, a service is provided 365 days year and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Now there is no excuse for me not to go. I adjourn this meeting until our meeting in private session next Tuesday.

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Officially, 10,500 people, including 3,500 children, are homeless in the State. That is a failure as far as I am concerned and I think that is a failure for anyone listening at home. That does not include those who are sofa surfing or living in unsuitable and overcrowded accommodation as well as parents and children stuck in their granny's boxroom. We all have that experience. We have all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Hourigan and Durkan. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, are the minutes of the committee meetings of 7 and 8 February 2023, which have been circulated to members for consideration, agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of the meeting today is for the Joint Committee on Health to meet with the Department of Health to discuss issues relating to nursing home charges. To commence the committee's consideration of this matter, I am pleased to welcome from the Department of Health Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General; Ms Siobhán McArdle, assistant secretary, social care, mental health and drugs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Thank you very much for your opening statement. I am going to move on to members, starting with Deputy Colm Burke.