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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: 558. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that requiring a consultant prescription for pregnant women suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum to access cariban effectively limits the reimbursement scheme to those women with private healthcare given the vast majority of pregnant women in the public system do not see their consultant. [6528/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in full the instructions given to consultants and midwives on the prescription of Cariban. [6529/23]

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank Labour for tabling this motion. Despite me pointing it out in the Chamber a number of times, the fact that the number of people who are classed as homeless is an under-representation remains unchanged. If the Government's figures are based on those who fit the criteria to be considered homeless by local authorities, it is falling short of the mark. In Tipperary alone, the county...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: The Labour Party is in government now.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of our private and public meetings on 18 and 19 January 2023, respectively. They have already been approved at our virtual private meeting, but for procedural reasons they...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Our next business is our engagement with officials from the HSE concerning Councillor David Dunne's Petition No. 48 of 2021, Save St. Brigid’s Hospital. I welcome members of the Save St. Brigid’s Action Group in the Public Gallery. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references to other...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: It is in the same yard.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Sorry, before Mr. Ruane comes in, this concerns the making of a vital decision that affects three counties and an awful lot of people. Surely a decision should be taken on expert advice and not just opinion. To let people know as well, movement was mentioned but the unit at Clogheen is 45 km from Carrick-on-Suir and 61 km from Tipperary town. We do not even have a bus service going from...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: From reading through the different documentation we have got since this petition was first submitted, what seems to be happening here is that the HSE is coming up with reasons to have closed this facility and making these fit the decision that was taken. This is rather than having done this the other way round, which would be doing everything properly, going through every channel and then...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: For the information of members, the five-bed wards have become four-bed wards. The physical space was available. It was not, as stated in the witness's opening statement, that there was a space between beds of 76 cm. That applied when there were five beds in the wards. Making them four-bed wards made room for wardrobes or more space between beds. I grant that the shower facilities were...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I appreciate that the witness has experience in building. I have 40 years' experience and other members also have experience. It is not difficult to tie in a new building to an old building. We heard about the report that was done. When was the time that St. Brigid's flooded, that there is such a worry about it now? We have not come across anyone in Carrick-on-Suir who can ever remember...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: There are old healthcare buildings all around the country onto which extensions have been put and that has not been a problem.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: The question was about costings. We all understand the five-bed and all the problems. Were the costings done?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: There were no costings done.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: We are back to opinions. Like I said at the start, this is a case of just having an opinion and closing some place down. Just coming back before Senator Craughwell, we keep hearing about reports done in previous years and all that. Being closed down was the culmination of them. Where are these reports? We, in the committee, and people down there have always asked for them. There is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: The HIQA reports never mention it not being fit for purpose; it is the HSE that has included that. As I said earlier, that makes it sound as if the HSE's decision to close it down is because there was something massive. The HSE mentioned it three times and HIQA never mentions it being not fit for purpose.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: But we do not known if the decision was made without those costings. Senator Craughwell is next.