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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I will allow some flexibility on time because this is an issue that we are all very interested in. Information is key in this matter so I will let the Minister continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. It is no secret that an election is close. My worry is that when we get into that cycle and the formation of government that comes after it, the body politic will potentially get stretched out for four or five months, which would do no good to this process. I would love if the Minister and his officials could expedite the ask of the Johnston family to initiate a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: No. None of this is personal. This is about the functioning of the hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: That is a positive development. I will follow the lines of Deputy Cullinane's questioning, and I will be careful. He has asked most of the questions. While the Minister responded, I was struck by the fact that his counterpart, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and her Department also have people on administrative leave in An Garda Síochána, but they do not move sideways or get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I hear the Minister but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I fully hear the Minister, but there is no garda on administrative leave being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent, so the whole thing does not make sense. However, I hear the Minister. I know Ministers do not get involved in HR areas like this, but someone needs to advise on this and slow it all down. A process is under way and we must allow it space. We cannot prejudice the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Let us not go down that road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I will hopefully come back in later, but will ask the Minister a final question. I have long been speaking about Ennis General Hospital and elective surgeries being suspended there for ten weeks. Surgery took place on perhaps four days in ten weeks. The theatre nurses, who are highly skilled, were redeployed to other functions in general medical wards. This is not personal, but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: They are not carrying bedpans or going to the general wards, but they are somewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: What are those hours?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Broderick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is next. Is she in the building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: That is okay. Deputy Shortall can go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Has Deputy Shortall finished her point? She might let the Minister in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: This is the Deputy's final question. She is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Go on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I have to cut Deputy Shortall off. Senator Byrne is substituting for Senator Kyne. She is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Senator Byrne is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Again, the Senator might be able to get a note for her question but go on.