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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Answer your questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Build some houses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Where are the houses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Róisín Shortall. I propose that we go into private session to consider briefly the business of the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 14 and 15 May 2024 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to consider issues relating to the employment of consultants and non-consultant hospital doctors in public hospitals with representative from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: I will make the point that a representative of the IMO attended the meeting yesterday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: It probably would not be unusual for somebody to be left in a chair for his or her treatment, never mind a trolley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Hourigan is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Deputy Hourigan. Deputy Gino Kenny is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: I will give the witnesses a comfort break for a few minutes. We will resume in five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: We will resume again with Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: To follow on from the last conversation around childcare, although we have not mentioned it this morning, it must be impossible to try to get accommodation, particularly in relation to rotation. The housing issue has not been mentioned this morning. The witness mentioned that she travelled around when she was younger, but it must be increasingly difficult for anyone in that situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: We saw that particularly during Covid-19. We asked people to put in those hours and we did not follow through. The system did not follow through on the childcare elements, regardless of everything else. That was one of the huge challenges and failures we had.
- 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: The problem is not that the consultant or doctor is not filling in the forms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: As in he or she is not applying for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: We are not going to resolve it today but it is important we highlight it and try to get some sort of sense of it. It just seems a chaotic system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: My next question is probably left-field again. When we were down in Limerick I was speaking to one of the consultants who said he was going to sign the contract but he just had not had the time to do so. Is it a fairly detailed contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Is the contract something that could be simplified? Does it have to be as onerous as it is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
Seán Crowe: Perhaps it is something we can follow up on. Is the IMO hopeful the issue regarding visas for families can be resolved?