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

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

On the neurorehabilitation piece, yes, we do intend to publish the mapping exercise and, if you like, what the profile looks like and what the gap and the need look like. I hope we can do that sooner rather than later. I make the point that we are not waiting for that in totality to try to pursue improvements, be it in the Estimates or other things.

With regard to Covid and Covid restrictions, we are very conscious that when we have visiting restrictions, it creates lots of connotations for people. I do understand that. The recent visiting restrictions at Tallaght University Hospital were associated with a significant uptick in the number of people with Covid. They were not necessarily in hospital because of Covid but they had Covid. They also had norovirus, which can be quite a dreadful infection if people who are sick or older people in particular catch it. It is just awful. We get outbreaks, and we did see an upsurge in outbreaks. Tallaght was not on its own in that.

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