Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is why I asked it as an oral question. Beaumont Hospital stands out. I know people who have asked numerous questions. I have put in freedom of information requests and the information has not been published or sent out and there are contradictions. The hospital, as other hospitals, is supposed to routinely publish its key performance indicators, KPIs. It does not do so. Its annual report from 2017, which refers to the year 2016, refers to its KPIs without providing detail. It seems the information provided when requested by numerous people about bed capacity at the hospital changes quite a bit. This hospital is way behind for some reason that needs to become public in providing freedom of information requests and other information through the website, which is their statutory role. It should be available for everyone. Why is this the case? What is being hidden? If something is being hidden, we need to find out why the hospital is an outlier compared with all other hospitals. The idea that the hospital would write to me late last year or tell the Minister today that it is putting in place a plan to do it is not acceptable. I want all this information available by this day next week because it has had four years to do it.

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