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

Seán Crowe: Thank you, Professor McKeown. On behalf of the committee, I congratulate Professor McAdam on his elevation to uachtarán. I also welcome Dr. Yvonne Smyth, who is online. We will go through Professor McKeown and he will farm the questions out to whoever he thinks is best placed to answer them. We normally do this in ten-minute slots, that is, questions and answers within ten minutes....

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

Seán Crowe: Looking around when we were discussing publication of the Nolan report, I saw that people were nodding their heads. The committee will ask the clerk to write to the Minister about publishing that report.

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

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senators Kyne and Conway. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 8, 9, 10 and 15 October have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. Today the joint committee will first meet the Irish Cardiac Society to discuss issues and challenges relating to cardiology. Later we...

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

Seán Crowe: We do not really have the time to go into it but maybe the witnesses could provide the committee with a note on the difficulties related to the injectables, using the older drugs and the process that is there. It might be something we could follow up on.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I will comment on some of the issues around the medicines management programme. For my own clarity, are these injections on cholesterol that we are talking about injections that would be undertaken by a clinician or is it something someone does at home?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That seems to be more prevalent across a number of treatments in healthcare at the moment. Regarding the medicine management programme, I can only imagine there is a huge amount of innovation in this area. If doctors want to move a treatment off the management programme and make it more freely available, how long is that process?

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

Neasa Hourigan: My question is on changing the criteria. What is the process and how long does it take?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Has the engagement been going on for months or years?

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

Neasa Hourigan: That is not great, given that drug innovation happens. We would like there to be a fairly dynamic response from organisations. I want to go back to the registry's issue. This has come up a number of times in other sectors to do with healthcare and anything that is a long-term condition. In a practical sense, what is the hold-up? What is the problem? Is it that there are different...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Investment in IT-----

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

Neasa Hourigan: There is no structural issue within hospital groups; everyone is perfectly happy to work with that. Is that correct?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am sure this will be incredibly useful. Will staff have to undertake training to engage with the system?

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

Neasa Hourigan: That is all in place already.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Great, I will keep my fingers crossed. Will Professor McAdam reiterate what region that covers?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Does the catchment area cover approximately 400,000 people?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Am I correct that the fact we do not collect enough data is not just a problem for health policy and development but also means that we are not first on the list when it comes to research and development?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Ireland has a fairly significant pharmaceutical sector so it seems like an obvious one. I imagine that at the EU meeting a lot of it would have been about research and innovation and how we can push forward together across the EU.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I think we would all like to see more North-South co-operation. I will move now to the issue of waiting lists. We are dealing with significantly different cohorts across multiple waiting lists. Some people have been referred by a GP, for example, and then we have some people who are experiencing a very specific health crisis. We have talked about it being a matter of days in some cases...