Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion

Mr. Connor Green:

I apologise to Deputy Cullinane for raising my voice. It was not directed at him.

Angela Lee, whom I consider one of the best CEOs in health in this country, is the CEO of Cappagh hospital. She has a passion for change at the hospital and she and the board have a plan that will deliver, in ten months, the ten-bed high-dependency unit, HDU, 16 additional beds and all the groundworks required for further expansion. The drawings have been done, the architects have completed their work and the soil examination has been carried out. I do not know whether I am saying the right or wrong things here, but we tried to push this through when the planning restrictions were lower during Covid because it was faster then. We tried to push it through when the costs to industry were lower.

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