Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion

Professor Colette Cowan:

On the staffing side of it, we have a reputation for building new facilities and opening them and delivering on time. The committee has already been stood up for the 96-bed block and the HR teams are already going to recruitment fairs to recruit staff for it. We know what the staffing requirements are and a significant bid for those has been approved and we will work on that over the next 18 months.

Regarding plans for a child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, unit on site, there is no plan. There is a CAMHS unit in Merlin Park University Hospital in Galway and that is the region but I will defer to my colleague, Ms Bridgeman, who knows best how to answer that.

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