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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: No apologies have been received. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 5 and 6 December 2023 have been circulated among the members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of the meeting today is for the joint committee to consider issues regarding cardiovascular health, stroke and heart attack with representatives from the Irish Heart Foundation and Croí. The meeting will maintain a particular focus on programmes, services and prevention of cardiovascular-related illnesses. To enable the committee to consider this matter, I am pleased to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I call Mr. O'Donnell of Croí to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: On behalf of the committee, I thank the organisations for the work they do for so many people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Senator Black is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Unfortunately not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: This is your last question, Deputy Shortall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: As a committee, we should be asking what the delay is in publishing it. I get Ms O'Shea's point regarding some of the information gathered for the review but I assume others are living the same experiences she experienced six years ago. Her disease has moved on but the challenges relating to it are still there. It does not make sense that it still has not been published six years later. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Before we take a break, Mr. Macey mentioned the Ard-Fheiseanna. Is there anything he wants to share with regard to the heart rates at some Ard-Fheiseanna?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Are particular parties more relaxed than others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Macey very much. We will take a break and suspend the meeting for ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Before we go on, I understand that during Covid certain sections may have been closed down. However, the fact that they have not reopened or are smaller-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I suppose the poorer the house, the colder the house, and the nearer to the fire people will move.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I wish to raise a few points. We all know someone impacted by this and someone who has had a heart attack or a stroke. We all know someone who has died from a heart attack or from coronary disease, and we all know someone who is living with it at the moment. The statistics are that this involves 9,000 deaths every year, which is 30% of the mortality rate. What I cannot get my head around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: On Sunday morning, I was talking to a referee who was at a local match when a young man from my area collapsed with heart failure despite having had no history of that. The referee was a firefighter, so he did CPR, and the guy is walking around now. We increasingly hear these stories. There was no defibrillator nearby. There may have been one near the clubhouse but many of the pitches are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I was struck by the observation that patients tend to be forgotten about - out of sight, out of mind - once they are discharged. Ms O'Shea referred to the quality of how a person survives thereafter being dependent on support. That is the big gap - the lack of community care and follow-up. Whatever about the challenges in the hospital system, the huge challenge is the lack of community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: There was reference to cancer units and the fact that there is no equivalent unit for cardiovascular disease. What difference would that make?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: It would be the driver for change.