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

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

I am talking about the fast turnaround. For instance, one of the other issue with clinics is that clinics in a lot of HSE facilities close at 5 p.m. What is being looked at in that regard?

For instance, one hospital I know, especially for day procedures, does not close at 5 p.m. but at 8 p.m. In other words, different staff come on. Some staff come on at 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. and another lot of staff come on from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. Therefore, far more people can be turned over. We have the facilities but are not fully utilising them.

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