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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I do not think anyone would disagree that there is a huge expense involved in this and a good possible recommendation coming from today's meeting could be that people are being challenged by their illness and there is no-one saying otherwise. Could we get figures as to how many dedicated staff there are in the long Covid-19 system from witnesses at some stage? This is their homework. Where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: We dealt with the monkeypox virus first and we are now discussing long Covid-19.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: Thank you very much. Is there anything else the witnesses would like to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I really appreciate the witnesses coming in this morning. It has been very informative. Hopefully, it has been helpful for people who are watching at home. The committee looks forward to the HIQA survey on this issue and to any other developments in relation to it. Perhaps at some stage in the near future, if we have the time, we could return to the issue, or when the report comes out, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has a special educational needs coordinator; if not, the reason for this; if the school has been allocated 1.5 teachers and two SNAs for every six SEN pupils; and when the SEN pupils in the school will be allocated their additional teaching resources to allow resource classes to begin. [49776/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senators Black and Conway. Minutes of the committee meetings on 27 and 28 September 2022 have been circulated to members for their consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting for the joint committee to discuss the current status of the new national children's hospital. I am pleased to welcome from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Mr. David Gunning, chief officer; Mr. Phelim Devine, project director; and Dr. Emma Curtis, medical director. I also welcome from the Department of Health: Mr. Derek Tierney, assistant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gunning and I call Mr. Tierney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I again thank Mr. Tierney for the invitation to visit the hospital. On behalf of all members, we found it interesting. We got a sense of the scale of the operation that is going on there and particularly of the potential of the actual site itself. I thank them for that. Before bringing in the members, one of the big questions in the minds of many people who are watching this morning will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: When can we expect to see patients in beds? Will it be on a phased basis? Will they wait until the hospital is completely finished or will they be moving in in phases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: One area we probably have not touched on that I should have mentioned at the start of the meeting is the local residents. There has been huge patience and co-operation and the meeting should not go by without the officials addressing that and how it is going. Consider the impact having a huge building site on your doorstep would have in the form of noise levels and everything else. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: In a post-pandemic context, we all realise the importance of ICU beds. It is good to know we have this type of flexibility, because who knows what we may be facing in future? Another small aspect in the overall context, but a major one for the patients going into the facility, is that I am conscious it is an all-Ireland facility. In this context, accommodation for nurses was mentioned....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: One of the positive developments is the development of an electronic patient indicator. Since we have some time, I ask one of the witnesses to expand on this initiative and how it is going to operate. Do we need to follow up with legislation in this regard? How is this system going to develop? I refer again to the idea of moving away from a paper-based system and this meaning it would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Tierney. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: Members of the Law Library we will not be out of pocket. Deputy Shortall is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: That is an important point and it is important that we are learning from the process, particularly around cost, but in other matters as well. That is a positive message to hear. Before I move on to Deputy Gino Kenny I want to go back to the issue of Tallaght University Hospital and Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown and those claims that were resolved in the High Court. Were the claims...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: It was not Covid-related.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: Conciliation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Crowe: I am sorry for delaying Deputy Gino Kenny.