Results 61-80 of 309 for speaker:Keith Swanick

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Keith Swanick: With a small amount of funding, much progress could be made on a day-to-day basis providing higher quality of care to patients. That is basically what it is all about. As we know, general practitioners on a daily basis often carry out nursing duties. Many of my GP colleagues around the country would agree with me in saying that even a small 10% refund of the FEMPI cuts could facilitate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Keith Swanick: More use could be made of the district hospital network, which includes some very remote hospitals. Services such as pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation could be carried out at such hospitals, which would mean that patients would not have to travel for an hour or an hour and a half to a main acute hospital. The provision of such services would facilitate the preservation of our district...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I am very happy to support this Bill, which will provide for eligibility for GP services without charge to be extended to all those in receipt of carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit. Carer’s allowance is a payment to people on low incomes looking after a person who needs support because of age, disability or illness,...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: I thank the Minister of State for that.

Seanad: Declaration of Independence Day Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: I welcome the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to the House and thank her for taking Report and Final Stages of this Bill prior to the summer recess. I also thank my co-signatories of the Bill, Senator Diarmuid Wilson who is with me here today, and also Senators Robbie Gallagher and Mark Daly. As we are all aware, the first meeting of Dáil Éireann took place in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: We have all been enjoying the unprecedented good weather recently. I want to mention the unsung heroes who once again keep us safe on a day-to-day basis. Just as it was during the bad weather we witnessed some months ago, the emergency services have been handling several weather-related crises of late. The fire services are dealing with unprecedented gorse and grass fires. The Irish Coast...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: Is it all right if Deputy O'Connell and I ask questions before the answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Keith Swanick: I will be very brief. In my professional experience it is important to highlight the good work done by many of the staff in the appointments sections of our hospitals on a daily basis. They are often on the receiving end of the wrath of patients and GPs who ring up looking for appointments. I think it needs to be put on the public record that they do a fantastic job. The situation...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Keith Swanick: The Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, will be in the House this evening to discuss mental health issues and the provision of care in the south-east region. I ask that the Minister for Health be brought before us in the near future to discuss the inexcusable waiting lists for patients in the south-east. I have a letter that was sent to a woman in County Waterford. It is marked "urgent"...

Seanad: Mental Healthcare in South-East Region: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Keith Swanick: Dr. John Hillery recently resigned as a consultant psychiatrist in the HSE after nearly 30 years working in mental health and intellectual disability services. He was not due retire from his post until 2022. He did so in protest over the treatment of staff and patients within the State’s mental health services. Last week Dr. Kieran Moore, a specialist consultant paediatric...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)

Keith Swanick: Today I had the privilege of launching "a connected island, an Ireland free from loneliness". I thank all those Oireachtas Members who contributed to this report. In total we received 310 submissions from North and South of the Border, from the elderly and the young, the rich and the poor and from all ethnicities. It truly shows how important this problem is and how it traverses all...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: I wish to comment on the response to the tragic CervicalCheck controversy. As we all know, 209 cases of cancer were diagnosed where results should have been escalated. Sadly, 18 of those poor patients have passed on. I want to flag a patient, Jacinta Doyle, who is a Wexford lady and a mother of two. She had a smear in 2011 and no issues were raised with that smear, but in 2012 she was...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: I move amendment no. 4:In page 3, lines 16 to 20, to delete all words from and including “by” in line 16 down to and including line 20 and substitute the following:“by—(a) the insertion of the following definitions:(i) “ ‘Act of 2015’ means Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; (ii) ‘guiding principles’ shall be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: To set the context, I would like to comment briefly about the response to the whole tragic controversy. While I understand the pressures that are on the system since the controversy broke, I would like to highlight one particular case that really brings home the anguish and worry of women across the country, and that is the case of Jacinta Doyle. She is a Wexford woman and mother of two who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: It was 26 November 2015. It would be interesting to find that out. There was also a meeting on 28 January 2016 at 2.30 p.m. The Minister had a meeting with the Department, the director general and the HSE. Was any of the witnesses in attendance at that meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: This lady had a history of cervical cancer and she still had to have three contacts with the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: Do the witnesses have any update regarding my second question about the potential breach of data protection using PPS numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: The committee addressed that question when I was in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: So Cervical screening was not discussed at that meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Keith Swanick: I thank Deputy Durkan for allowing me to speak before him. Going back to the meeting of 26 November 2015, we heard Mr. Breslin's evidence. He is categorical in his opinion that there was no discussion about CervicalCheck at that meeting. Are the minutes of the meeting at his disposal?