Results 761-780 of 1,194,300 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:John Dolan OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Barry Cowen OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Patrick O'Donovan OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Bernard Durkan OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Richard Bruton6 OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív5 OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív61 OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Pearse Doherty) in 'Committee meetings'

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses. I will move to Deputy Hourigan next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Senator John Cummins is not a member of the committee but he has kindly stepped in for Senator Seán Kyne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I will ask a couple of questions. Figures of 9,000 deaths and 25,000 hospital admissions per year were mentioned. Cardiovascular disease is the second-most common cause of death in Ireland and cost €3.4 billion in health and social care in 2021. It seems extraordinary that there is no plan. When we met people concerning sight loss, we were told there was no plan in that regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: As part of the health initiative, we met Professor McKeown in Queen’s University Belfast. In the context of our trip to Altnagelvin hospital, there is a link with Donegal. On linkages, I presume our guests would like to see such initiatives rolled out across the island. If patients are living in Cavan they do not want to travel for two hours to get to the nearest hospital. Are there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: We are over time but I want to quickly give a little of my own background. My mother died of a massive heart attack. I was a teenager at the time, so it may have gone over my head but I do not remember the family being told to get tested. This was in the mid-1970s. Things have changed since then. We discovered years later that I am a carrier for haemochromatosis. That might have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: A point was made earlier about women not following up with rehabilitation for various reasons, including, I presume, their caring role. Will our guests to outline the importance of rehabilitation after a cardiac event? Reference was made to peer support. For those in that situation who have not followed up on rehabilitation, I ask our guests to explain its importance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: There are many issues we could discuss if we had the time. Maybe we can do so at some stage in the future. There will be a new committee and there may be a new Cathaoirleach. Who knows? We really appreciate our guests' input today. I thank the Irish Cardiac Society for its engagement with the committee on the important issues and challenges in relation to cardiology.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: The committee will now commence its consideration of staffing levels in the HSE. From Fórsa, I am pleased to welcome Ms Ashley Connolly, Ms Linda Kelly, Ms Clodagh Kavanagh and Mr. Martin Jennings. The witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I will ask a few questions about the embargo on recruitment and the impact it has had. It is denied that there was an embargo. What is the number of vacancies that were available when the embargo was not in operation? How many deserving posts were being and were filled at that time? What is the total number of people recruited into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There has been difficulty in areas such as speech and language therapy going back years. Is it getting worse or is it being improved in any fashion at all? For example, there was no maternity leave for speech and language providers. Is maternity leave now provided for, with a person available to drop in to cover for the leave period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On the €79,493,000 spent on private consultancy firms for strategic planning and business improvement which, if not spent there, would fund 1,865 therapy posts, 2,354 medical secretary posts or 1,334 psychology posts, how is that measured? Was the consultancy work required, would it have had to be provided in-house, or was it subcontracted out to people with expertise in that area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Do such attendees at the briefing sessions contribute to the sessions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I refer again to the ageing population, which comes up all the time. I do not think that the number of old people is increasing. I think the number of younger people is increasing at a far more rapid rate. If one looks at the people congregating in supermarkets, stores and shops, with employment in the economy, there are huge numbers of young people coming into the country. We are also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: There has been growth of 300% and 400% in the number of older people in some of the estates I represent because people are living longer. That view is based on census returns, not made-up figures. Do the witnesses wish to respond to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I do not think anyone disagrees. The fact is people are living longer, accessing healthcare and staying longer in the system, not because they are bed blockers or anything else but because they need to stay in it for health reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: The witnesses are very welcome and I thank them for their opening statement. I ask them to clear up some confusion in this area. Anyone listening to this discussion in recent months will have seen a lot of smoke and mirrors. On the one hand, the Minister for Health has been telling us we have never had it so good with all of this recruitment that we have seen over the last number of years,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: When the Minister for Health was before the committee last week I put it to him that if he disputed the figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, SIPTU, Fórsa or any other organisation on suppressed, lost or decommissioned posts, he should provide the real number and I did not get an answer. Is the lack of an answer because the data is not being captured or does the HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I accept that. Ms Connolly spoke about a lack of transparency about the data underpinning the pay and numbers strategy and the other healthcare trade unions have made a similar point. She made another important point, which should be noted, that HSE HR was directed to essentially switch off the vacancies on the SAP payroll system. If vacant posts are switched off and gone, is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Are these posts that were marked as vacant on the HSE's SAP payroll system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: They have just vanished.