Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
The team will continue to meet for the foreseeable. We tend to talk about it meeting until the end of March. Are sure that influenza has peaked yet? Indications are that it has. Influenza will spend a number of weeks at a high level before it starts going down fully. It will still be high for a number of weeks. That will definitely take us to the end of January and into February. With regard to the end of February and into March, we are thinking about the triggers that will cause us to say we can stand down the national crisis management team. While the team brings focus to one particular topic, it obviously takes that focus from elsewhere. It will meet until at least the end of February or probably into March.
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