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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I will not do the topic justice here. There has been a lot of careful thinking. We will publish the report and allow everybody to look at it in the round. The Government has progressed substantially in terms of the second cath lab in Waterford University Hospital. As the Deputy will be aware, the second cath lab opened in September of last year. That was an important milestone. The...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I asked a direct question about 24-7 services.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that. We will publish the report. Let us all review it in the round.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Can the Minister not answer my question?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Hospital Services
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: 2. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the feasibility of the proposal to extend the opening hours of the medical assessment unit at Nenagh Hospital. [39333/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: Will the Minister give me his view regarding the feasibility of the proposal to extend the opening hours of the medical assessment unit at Nenagh Hospital? The idea and principle of expanding the opening hours of the medical assessment units at Nenagh and Ennis are understandable and logical. This could work if implemented properly. It would create more activity in Nenagh Hospital and mean...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question. I support his call for ongoing investment in the medical assessment unit in Nenagh Hospital. The unit has been providing a valuable service locally. In many cases, it is an alternative to the emergency department for GP referrals. It is currently open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Last year, more than 4,000 patients were referred to the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: The problem is that the medical assessment unit in Nenagh Hospital is currently staffed and available but every day, several available slots are not used. Patients are not presenting to avail of the service. Consultants, nurses and support services are assigned to the hospital but there are not enough patients to treat. That is the reality. Considering that the current hours of service...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The number of presentations does not reflect the concerns that people are bringing to the Deputy. I will share the relevant numbers. In 2021, there were 1,300 referrals. In 2022, there were 2,500 referrals. Last year, there were 4,100 referrals. This year's number will be in excess of that. Between 2021 and 2023, years for which we have the figures, there was a 300% increase in the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: The fact is that the front-line staff, the people in the hospital, are asking me what is the point in extending hours when the existing slots are not taken up. Consultants, nurses and everyone else are waiting around with no patients. That is the reality. There is a problem with the referrals from the GPs. The GPs obviously have good reason for not sending patients to Nenagh Hospital and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: This is probably the first conversation I have had where any Deputy has called for a reduction in healthcare service provision in a constituency. I do not think I have ever heard hospital staff calling for fewer services to be provided. We need to treat this carefully. As I said, the number of referrals is not in line with what the Deputy is hearing. The number of referrals tripled in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: I am not saying that. I am saying we should use the service to its maximum.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I know the Deputy is not saying that, and of course we will do as he says. It is interesting that the concerns the unions are raising with the HSE are that they do not want to work the rosters that are being offered. That is what the HSE is hearing. The Deputy might share specific examples of unfilled slots and I will ask the HSE about it on the back of this conversation. It goes without...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)
National Children's Hospital
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health how he will ensure that the new children’s hospital opens as quickly as possible following handover from the contractor; if he will publish the transition plan for the move to the new hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39374/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: The saga around the national children's hospital, unfortunately, continues. When the Minister gets to his feet, he might give us some indication from his perspective as to when he believes the handover will happen and when the hospital will open and treat patients. Is he satisfied that the transitional plans are in place to ensure that when the hospital is ready for the handover and is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his question. As we are all aware, the main contractor has now missed its own deadline 14 times. It missed its own deadlines four times this year alone. Neither the HSE nor the Government has confidence in deadlines that a contractor puts forward when the contractor misses its own deadlines 14 times. Our position and that of the board has been clear, in that the...
- Prelude (3 Oct 2024)
- Prelude (3 Oct 2024)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach (Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh) i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.