Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority
2:00 am
Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
I only know what was in a few of those because political colleagues have shared what they said. It is important that we, as policymakers, see some of what has gone in.
Option B would be two hospital systems that are in some way interconnected and the staff would be able to move from one to the other. You would decant services from one to the other. University Hospital Galway and Portiuncula hospital are under the same governance structures with the Saolta group. They are quite a distance apart. Where HIQA talks about option B and moving onto option C, what is the upper distance limit? There is a question in this region. I am a TD for Clare. Deputy Kelly is a TD for Tipperary. We are rightly asked if this has to be in Mungret, Coonagh or some place like that. Could it be further afield.
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