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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...the whole area of capital projects and the priorities of his board. We have had discussion with various groups. People have appeared before the committee with regard to certain projects that were resolved around maybe the lack of beds in a particular area or whatever. One would imagine that there would be common agreement across the system. Whatever way we have our system, however, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...there are only a handful around the country, which highlights the fact we need more of these type of centres. The main point the Alliance of Community Cancer Support Centres made in its presentation this morning is that there is a reliance. The State is relying on charities and on the voluntary sector, but there needs to be a certainty regarding the various centres. I am aware of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...their volunteers for the work they carry out day in, day out. I thank them for engaging with the committee on the challenges facing community-based cancer support services in the context of the national cancer strategy. As a committee, we will continue to monitor this matter and we will be doing a report. We will be making recommendations on the back of today's meeting. I again thank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: These are all the elements. I am on a committee of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly which is looking at the idea of rural housing. One of the things that started to come up at a recent meeting is that if you are serious about building communities in rural areas, on islands or wherever, you need to have a home for the doctor, the police officer and the teacher, and you need to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: That is not the impression we get from it. Points have been made about beds and key staff with regard to the predictions for population levels in 2030, and we are at that stage now.

Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: There was talk of a slowdown in rent rises after the latest Daft report, but new rents in south Dublin still rose by 4.2%. Unfortunately, wages did not go up, which is the big crisis facing many families. An average three-bedroom rented house in Tallaght now goes for over €2,200 per month, which is €27,000 per year. What family or individual can afford this on top of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: Over the past two years, the waiting list for children's audiology services in CHO 7 at the Russell Centre in Tallaght has been allowed to double. There are now 5,800 children on the waiting list. The response I received from the HSE specifically states that staff vacancies left unfilled due to the HSE recruitment freeze have led to these high numbers. Does the Tánaiste agree that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Rogers very much. We all know as politicians that we tend to meet more of those people for whom the services are delivering but in our ordinary life we tend to hear more from people where the services do not exist or are not being delivered for them. The point was made about the huge cohort of people who have a neurological condition. In another couple of years, we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Cotter very much. I will speak now but I appreciate that there are other members also wishing to come back in. On Ms Cotter's own alliance, its members have mentioned that there are 30 not-for-profit organisations. I believe it is even more than that. These are all household names such as Acquired Brian Injury Ireland, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Chronic Pain Ireland,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: No apologies have been received. Deputy Bernard Durkan is at a select committee meeting and said he will be in and out of this meeting. Before we go to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of committee meetings on 30 April and 1 May 2024 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of the committee meeting today is to receive an update...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have a couple of questions. I want to focus on some of the groups we have had in recently. Before I get into that, I have a local issue. We all tend to go down this route. I refer to the importance of Sláintecare, new pathways to care and so on. Two of the witnesses focused on waiting lists. I was told that the waiting lists for audiologist services in Tallaght last year was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: .... It seems to be a whole area of health we have fallen down on and there clearly needs to be a different focus on it. Another group, Vision Ireland, was in. Again, it talked about a lack of strategy in this whole area. One of the things that sort of jumped out at me was when it said one of the challenges it was facing as an organisation - and I would say this is multiplied right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I just wished to signal that it seems to be a concern of the organisation. I am sure it is replicated with others. I am conscious of time but the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association was in with the committee again. I am conscious that there is a new contract for the supply of oxygen. The organisation was saying it had met with the project manager as part of the process and that people were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I need to end this part of the meeting. I thank the representatives of the Department of Health and the HSE for continuing to engage with the committee. We look forward to working with them further on these important matters. The meeting is suspended and will resume shortly at 12 noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: On the agreement itself, the document states the Department is attending talks between 29 April and 10 May. Do amendments come up at that meeting within those talks? How does the Irish side feed into that? This is the first time, politically, that the health committee has engaged with this. What engagement has the Department had, aside from those who are attending? I am talking about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: For the benefit of those who are listening in at home, there is nothing secretive about these negotiations. I presume journalists are allowed in. If people want to access documents about what the sides are saying, is that all available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: I will finish. The meeting has come to an end because we have no more time. The committee is now adjourned until our next meeting in private session on Tuesday, 14 May at 4 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: It is scandalous. Mr. Hourihan mentioned the famous Kevin "Heffo" Heffernan in relation to that. It is good to hear his name being mentioned in these hallowed walls. It is good to hear that someone remembers him. It is scandalous that we do not have up to date legislation. On reading the witnesses' opening statement, particularly appendix 1 and some of the points they were making, while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...whole area of health, given the importance of oral health for the whole body, not just the mouth, and the impact it has. Other countries get it but, for some reason, we do not seem to have done that here. We prioritise other areas of health and, as I said, I welcome that a unit is being established. However, the fact that we are playing catch-up at this stage is very worrying. Is...