Dáil debates

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

 

1:10 pm

Photo of Thomas GouldThomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Today I received correspondence from the HSE which indicates that on 18 September and again on 16 October the executive wrote to SouthDoc and instructed it to reopen its facility in Blackpool in Cork. The HSE warned that it did not accept the closure of this facility because it increased the risk of unnecessary presentations being made to acute hospitals. If the facility at Blackpool is not reopened by 31 December, SouthDoc will be in breach of its service level agreement. SouthDoc receives more than €7 million from the HSE under that agreement. I have asked about this for the last three weeks on the trot and have been raising the issue since March. We now need an intervention because there is no SouthDoc service on the north side of Cork city. SouthDoc is getting €7 million for not providing a service.

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