Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I suggest in response to the petitioners and the campaign that the best thing for us as a committee would be to extend invitations - reference was made to some of the questions that were put by the campaign group - to the relevant individuals, whether those are within the HSE or more locally and regionally so that we can hear from those clinical decision-makers.
If I may, we got some briefing notes in advance of the witnesses' attendance here today. I will read some of it out here. It regards "the HSE national support team on patient flow and decongesting the UHL site ... following an initial four-week programme". That was back in early July and I presume the witnesses are aware of that. Have they seen any progress following the initiative the HSE undertook in early July?