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- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Would any other witnesses like to contribute? Is Deputy McNamara finished?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I thank Deputy McNamara. On my own behalf, I express my condolences to Marie regarding her husband-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Wynne.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: There is a list of people the campaign has asked us to bring in in front of the committee. I will propose later that we will try to bring those people in and we can quiz them.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I will say the list is long and it would be difficult to try to get them all here in a short time. It is asking for nine or ten groups to come in. That would be nearly four meetings and that would be splitting a meeting into two. I have it down to talk to the petitioners and see if we can break it down to, perhaps, the three most important people they would feel the committee could invite...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I imagine none of the Ministers know who is coming into the committees.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes, but this meeting was for the petitioners to come in and we would talk to them-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: -----and take away whatever we feel we can to progress the petition afterwards. While we are talking about it, the witnesses have asked for the Minister for Health, the author of the HIQA report, the CEO of the UL Hospitals Group, the former clinical director of the UL Hospitals Group, the HSE representative, representatives from the Sláintecare implementation committee, union...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I call Senator Gavan.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: We have a list of what we need to break down. We are not going to be able to answer the questions Ms McMahon is asking today. We need those people sitting where our guests are in order that the members can start putting the questions to them and they can give us the answers.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Does anyone want to respond to Deputy Buckley?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I am sure Ms McMahon has the full support of everybody on the committee with regard to the workers. They have the misfortune of being the people who get caught on the front line, as Ms McMahon said, in all situations right across the board.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Sorry, just before Deputy Devlin goes ahead, on 20 September 2022, the committee stated: The Joint Committee on Health will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, 21st September for a discussion on the serious issues raised in the HIQA report in relation to the Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick at 9.30 a.m. in Committee Room 2". That is when it was heard there.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes, there was a referral by this committee. That is when it was referred.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Can I answer that? As far as I know-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: As far as I know, it is not political.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Does Deputy O’Donoghue want to come back in?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Deputy, every hospital in the country faces that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I do not think-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I will stop you there, because I do not think either the committee or staff agrees. This clouds the problems that the witnesses are trying to highlight.