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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I will just finish this sentence, if that is okay. The hospital group managers nationally and the CHO managers nationally are being redeployed to other roles.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I believe that a redeployment of the senior management within the move to the six regions is a reasonable thing to do. There was public competition, quite rightly, for the six regional executive officer, REO, posts. Regarding the mid-west, I want us to be really careful here. As of this moment, no findings have been made against anyone in UHL in regard to the tragic death of Aoife so I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Thanks very much. I presume the Deputy meant to say avoidable. He said unavoidable-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Let me answer this question carefully. If the Cathaoirleach wants to stop the clock for Deputy Crowe, he should feel free to do so because this is a matter for all of us. I will try to make a few points on this. I have met Carol and James. It was heartbreaking. Aoife was 16. My oldest kid got his junior certificate results yesterday. He is 15. I cannot begin to imagine what they have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Thanks Chair and Deputy. If we were to launch a statutory inquiry, one of the questions we would have to be able to answer is whether the legal teams of those currently under investigation by their employer will say that those investigations have to stop. They could say that they have to be paused and they could be paused for two, four, eight or ten years. I hear the family with all of my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Crowe. I will answer his first question first. I know he is not seeking to criticise Ian Carter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I understand. I have already accepted what Deputy Cullinane said. It is a fair challenge, but if I might challenge back slightly: he was not invited. I was invited, and I have come with the regional executive officer, who was not invited. I also come with three assistant secretaries who were not invited. If the committee was that keen on speaking to Ian Carter, respectfully, it should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy very much. The first and simple answer is because the role does not exist any more. The role of hospital group chief executive does not exist. The role of CHO chief executive does not exist. This is not the same as someone being on administrative leave and simply moving from one permanent post to another. The role that the individual occupied is gone. The second...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not a lawyer, but that is my suspicion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I will make two quick points in response. One is that it is not a promotion. It is moving to what arguably would be seen as a smaller span of control, so I would not characterise it as a promotion. The promotion would be to Sandra Broderick's role, which is the regional executive officer role. The second point I would make is that the Deputy should not underestimate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. We just have to be very careful about being seen to prejudice an investigation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I might ask Ms Broderick to speak to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The short answer is that I agree with the Deputy. I agree with the Sláintecare recommendation. I agree with her point when it comes to the health service and the wider public sector. It is something that should be considered in the next programme for Government, whoever may be putting that together. Again, I am not an employment lawyer, but I have learned more about it over the past...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Finally, we have sought to address it within employment law within the new public-only consultant contract, which does contain more provisions around performance management and accountability.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, I could not agree more. The clinical director role does not do what most of us think it was meant to do, which is to performance manage. Obviously, we champion patient safety, but within that we must make sure the clinical teams within the organisations are operating to the best extent possible. There are some clinical directors who do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for interrupting. What I can tell the Deputy is that in the context of the new clinical director role, there is a significant focus on exactly the point she is making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: If it is okay, I will ask Ms Broderick to speak to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I respond to that, Chair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for that. I am more than happy to take responsibility, obviously, but in the interest of fairness, when I was appointed, there were approximately 400 beds in UHL. We have added 118. There are 16 more that are going to open this year, 96 more in quarter 2 of next year, another 96 after that - they are under construction - and a further 84. I am more than happy to take...