Results 81-100 of 5,627 for speaker:Martin Conway

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I welcome the announcement of the school transport review yesterday, but there will have to be a realisation that significantly more money will have to be invested in the provision of buses if we are going to extend the criteria in the manner that was proposed in the report. We are also going to have to create a culture of thinking outside the box. Where buses supporting the Ukrainian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the delegates for attending. I have a straightforward, simple question for them: have they met the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, recently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: At that meeting, was there a commitment to set up the working group? Were the delegates given timelines at that stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I agree with Deputy Hourigan that the timeframe is very tight to feed into the Estimates process for budget 2025. My understanding is that the officials start preparing the Estimates in July. Really and truly, the working group would need to be set up immediately and work through quarter 2 of this year to have the recommendations signed off on. If at this stage the terms of reference are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: So they get their full audiological assessment and are then referred on if interventions are needed. Could this result in a scenario in which, in five or ten years, no schoolchild will have hearing loss that has not been identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: Sometimes life would be simple, only humans complicate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: So the proportion of children who develop hearing loss going through primary and post-primary school could rise from 4% to 8% or 10%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: One would wonder why this screening of babies did not begin happening a long time ago. It seems very simple. As our guests probably know, I do a great deal of advocacy work for eye care and sight loss, and there is a need for a national strategy for the prevention of preventable sight loss as well. A lot of national strategies are needed. From our perspective, and I think I speak for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: The bulk of the latter third come from product sales. There is a commercial wing to the organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I concur with what my colleagues have said. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for being here. I first came across this issue five or six years ago and have always taken an interest in it. It is great that there have been some developments in the US, although they will probably take some time to reach us here, which is always an issue. Are any supports being provided to the siblings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: Do many siblings within families take up that option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: It is rare that people come in here and actually have good things to say about the HSE, even though it does lots of good work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: It is a great organisation but that does not get acknowledged. The committee's role is to stress-test and deal with issues to which the HSE is not responding but it is good to hear the other side as well. I thank our the witnesses and congratulate them on all their great work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I am not suggesting it does not. That is fine.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank Senator Carrigy and commend him on the fantastic work he does in this area, particularly his work as Chair of the autism committee. It has made a fundamental difference in this House. Well done.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I welcome Liam and Breda O’Connor from Clogheen, County Tipperary, who are guests of our colleague Senator Garret Ahearn. I hope they have a wonderful day in Leinster House. We are dealing with Commencement matters, where people raise issues of concern to them. My mother is from Cahir, so I Clogheen very well. I hope they have a wonderful day and I have no doubt that Senator Ahearn...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State and I thank Senator Clonan for his constant advocacy on these extremely important issues. Before the next Commencement Matter, I welcome our guests in the Distinguished Visitors' Gallery from the Irish Wheelchair Association. They are very welcome to Leinster House today. They are guests of Senator Hackett. I hope they have a very enjoyable and informative day.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: We await now the arrival of the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. I also apologise to Senator Boylan about the running order of these Commencement matters. Her matter is fifth in this list also but clearly there was a breakdown in communications somewhere along the line.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State for his time in the Seanad this afternoon. It is much appreciated.