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 Donna McGettiganDonna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein)

Having listened to all of this, there is no mention of fire risk. I am becoming less and less engaged with this HIQA report. I do not feel it is going with us. Did HIQA rely solely on the ESRI's stats or did it use a system like the dynamics modelling, which would be better suited to complex health systems? When it comes to this here, all different types of stats should be brought in in order to get a consensus around this because there was a big, broad range of things. Since there is no accountability for anything that happens, it is always the front-line staff who get the blame. The staff have to work under incredibly hard circumstances. I wish to give that support to them and also to Ms Sandra Broderick, who has made changes since she took over.

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