Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is noted for now. If something is not moved, we need to bring officials from Irish Water in to answer why suddenly another problem has come in at this stage.

Petition No. 48 of 2022 is entitled Save St. Brigid’s Hospital and was submitted by Mr. David Dunne. This petition relates to a request to reopen St. Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir. The secretariat wrote to the HSE on behalf of the petitioner on 30 November 2021 and received a response on 14 December 2021. The committee agreed to forward the correspondence to the petitioner for comment and to hold meetings with stakeholders on the petition. Two representatives of the Save St. Brigid’s Action Group spoke on behalf of the petitioner at the committee’s public meeting of 19 January 2023. The committee subsequently agreed to invite both the HSE and HIQA in to present to the committee on the petition. HIQA responded outlining the reasons it would not present to the committee and the HSE has just presented on this petition. The committee recommends that the correspondence from Ms Angela Fitzgerald, chief executive officer, HIQA, be sent to the petitioner for information. To let the public know what has just happened, we had a two and a half hour meeting with HSE officials. We noted and there is other stuff we have asked for clarification-----