Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is that agreed? Agreed.

Petition No. 36 of 2022 is titled “Re-open Ennis, Nenagh and St. John’s Emergency Departments” from Ms Noeleen Moran. This petition is submitted on behalf of the Mid-West Hospital Campaign Group and demands the upgrading of the three hospitals to model 3, as well as the reopening of the emergency departments. It was before the committee on 13 October 2022. The petitions case manager corresponded with Mr. Ray Mitchell, national assistant director, parliamentary affairs division, HSE, on 29 June 2022, and received a reply on 4 August 2022 from Ms Pamela Jensen enclosing a response from University of Limerick Hospitals Group, which was then forwarded to the petitioner for information. The petitioner further corresponded on 12 September 2022 with documentation which has been sent to mid-west public representatives in support of her petition. The secretariat also sent the petition and the correspondence from UL Hospitals Group to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and advised the HSE of same. The Committee on Health was also consulted, and the Committee on Health advised the Committee on Public Petitions that this topic is not on its work programme.

The committee recommends that the correspondence from acute operations, HSE, be forwarded to the petitioner for consideration and reply within 14 days, and that this petition be considered again once a response has been received from the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly. Do members have any views or is it agreed?