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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...2024 Revised Estimate on Vote 38 for the Department of Health. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly and the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and national drugs strategy, Deputy Naughton. I thank them for the provision of a briefing note on the Estimate. Members will have noted the correction notified by the Department of one figure in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...be run that way. Staff cannot be expected to put up with that kind of nonsense. First, it is a distraction and, second, it is intimidating. If there are people who are out of their minds with drugs, drink or whatever it is, they should by all means be attended to, but it should not happen in the same accident and emergency department. There should be a different place down the corridor...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...since many of these people got an increase. It must be an impossible task. They are constantly being recruited by the health service, particularly those involved in community care and in the drugs area. These staff are being headhunted all the time, which is having an impact locally in many areas. Again, I appeal to whoever is involved in negotiations to resolve this as soon as...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...women who have just given birth can be reintegrated with the baby, have access to the baby and have family access without being, in this case, in a room next door to somebody who is coming off high-drug dependency. They are at totally different ends of the spectrum of mental health needs. This woman's point, which I reiterate because the poor woman is in the heavens these days, is there...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...address. I realise section 39 workers are voluntary workers but they are doing the same work. The system would collapse without them. I am conscious the Minister of State with responsibility for the drugs strategy is present. Some of those who work in front-line initiatives and groups working at the coalface have talked about not getting an increase for ten years and the challenges...