Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

I appreciate the Deputy's frustration. I appreciate that there needs to be a major plan. I also appreciate that this has to be done in a sequencing way so that the hospital can continue to function. The information I have for her is that it will be presented to the HSE board for approval at the end of this month. I cannot put it further than that.

I am attending the hospital, as I attend many hospitals, not to take photographs but to visit and speak with management to understand better the hospitals and how they work, the local nuances that impact them and the fact that Galway has been in difficulties over the bank holiday weekends. I want to understand the scheduling and roster, quite apart from capacity issues, and what is happening with the rosters and with the public-only consultant contracts and whether there are local issues that explain the particular difficulties they have had over the weekends. I am not interested in photographs, but I have to do my work. It is not the first time I have heard it. I appreciate the Deputy's perspective on it, but I do plan to go anyway.

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