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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I do not have time to bring in other speakers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I do not mind. I have not asked any questions myself. Does Deputy Durkan have one question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister and his staff very much for coming in. We have all found the information we have been given very interesting. As a committee, we took the unprecedented step of going down to visit UHL. Members expressed a number of reasons for this but we were all concerned by the really negative stories we were hearing about what was happening in Limerick. We were hearing stories for...
- Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Even though nitrous oxide ranks among the top three drugs used by young people, it garners very little attention by the media or policy-makers. We have all seen with our own eyes the evidence of its growing use. I gave the canisters the name "silver bullets" because children are playing Russian roulette with this gas. The use of the gas has led to death and serious long-term harm to people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senators Black and Hoey. The minutes of the committee's meetings of 24 and 25 September and 2 October have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to consider issues relating to the development of the proposed national children's hospital with the Minister for Health. This follows the committee's recent meeting with representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. I am pleased to welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The Minister is accompanied by Mr. Derek...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Minister, you have about a minute and a half to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: The Deputy should hold on and wait his turn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: The Deputy has made that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Hold on. We are five minutes over time. I will go to Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Senator Conway. I will let Deputy Alan Kelly in now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Ten minutes for your questions and then the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: People are asking two questions about the hospital, one of which is when it will open. We are being told it will be June 2025 but we are not sure on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: We are not sure of the exact date when we will open. Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: We do not have an exact date. We have a ballpark time for when it may or may not happen depending on the works that are carried out. The frustration that we heard the last time, when the board was in, was that there was no baseline contract. In other words, there was no work schedule that the board was confident would go ahead. On the back of the Minister's meeting with Royal BAM, have we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: The concern I have and, I suppose, most people would have is in relation to that contract. It was said that lessons were learned from that. Could the Minister outline what lessons were learned? There is a backdrop of a maternity hospital that is to be built. Will we have to go through the same difficulties with that? This process has dragged out. There was clear frustration from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: At some stage, maybe Mr. Tierney could provide the committee a note on it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: -----because we are all worried. We do not want to see this repeated. In relation to the maternity hospital, will we see that built by the end of the decade?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Lastly, the last time the board was in, they were saying that they were withholding the 15% in relation to payment. Is that still in place following the board's substantive meeting with Royal BAM?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Has that not changed?