Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE

9:30 am

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the primary care piece, again, the HSE is looking at different things. On page 5 of the report, it states that a review was undertaken following a number of landlords and developers raising concerns about the financial viability of the operating lease model. I am thinking of Ballyboden Primary Care Centre, which is an excellent and fantastic centre. I have availed if it myself. It is an absolutely fantastic primary care centre and location. I want to hear a little bit about that. I would have thought that was a very generous model that the HSE operated.

On the Covid lists, is Tallaght University Hospital an outlier in terms of Covid? I know ward visiting was shut down. The witnesses might say a little bit more about that.

My final question is with regard to the neurorehabilitation piece. I commend Dr. Burke personally, but also her team, for the interest they have taken in this, specifically with regard to Huntington's disease. I thank them very generously. They are not thanked enough for the interventions they make. Is the HSE going to publish an action plan for inpatient neurorehabilitation to address the two thirds shortage in beds? The witnesses might comment on the neurorehabilitation piece, the Covid piece in Tallaght and the primary care.

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