Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Liam Woods:

We would be strongly supportive of, and have already been seeking to include in our public notices, the wider use of the minor injuries unit in Dundalk. In regard to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, we are looking at a set of arrangements to support the hospital, including the provision of 24 private nursing homes in the short term. In terms of the recommendation from the LRC, that is resource-dependent and so we will have to consider it in terms of the full context of the recommendation which only arose yesterday.