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Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last Wednesday evening I visited University Hospital Galway where I was briefed comprehensively by representatives of the Saolta group and authorities in the hospital on the enormous challenges facing staff and the pressures under which they were operating and, in particular, the situation in the emergency department. After the briefing they brought me to see the emergency department at...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: More than 250 people a day, on average, attend the emergency department which works out at approximately 62,000 a year, but it was built to cater for 100 a day. The situation in the paediatric department was shocking. There were two bays in the corner of a room, children were on the ground crying, parents cramped together and there was no capacity to deal with infection control. I met the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The hospital has a solution to this problem which it has put to the Government. Fundamentally, it has stated to the Government that it has sought approval to progress to design stage for a replacement emergency department and shell accommodation to replace the existing maternity unit, a 1950s building, but incredibly the Government has not included the project in its health capital...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Particularly since it is now the tertiary hospital for the west and north west, as the Taoiseach knows, and the numbers are increasing on an ongoing basis-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----the very minimum required is a commitment to replace the emergency department.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: All of the projects so far in the health sector have been in Dublin. There is very little being provided outside Dublin in the rest of the country in the health arena.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Silence, please. What is the Taoiseach saying?

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that the Taoiseach has said he has been to the hospital and that its emergency department is not fit for purpose.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that the Taoiseach knows and has said the emergency department is not fit for purpose. He has been to the hospital recently, yet the project has not been included in the health capital plan. He knows that if provision for the project is not made in the capital plan for the next five years, it will be a further five years beyond before any start will be made on it. While...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The policy makes it clear that everybody on the western seaboard must go to University Hospital Galway.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The community nurses I met said people in the community were begging them not to send them to the emergency department in University Hospital Galway because of the conditions there. It escapes me how the project was not included in the health capital plan. The Taoiseach has said he does not know at what stage the project is at. He should know if it is at design stage. He should know what...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Of course, the Taoiseach should know.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that the project has not been included in the health capital plan and nothing can happen if it is not included in it. There is no point saying to the hospital, "Scale it down, we want a lesser plan"-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are impediments in European Union legislation to changing Irish legislation to give all Irish citizens access to the free fees scheme for third level, regardless of their residency status, to enable them to access the scheme without having to be resident here for three of the five years prior to making their entry application to third...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am very disappointed with the Minister's reply. It is too cold. I asked him to meet the couple and he should meet them. They can inform him on why there are issues across the hospital system. He is saying he has been informed by the HSE and the Coombe hospital. The Coombe hospital has not covered itself in glory in regard to this case. There are fundamental lessons to be learned from...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: So did I-----

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and I met them.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister could have a separate independent inquiry.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Thank you, Acting Chairman. I thank the Minister for Health for attending the Chamber. Last week-----

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: If Members would not mind, as this is a serious and sensitive issue. There are people listening in the Visitors Gallery and a little decorum might be called for. Last Tuesday evening, I had a meeting with a couple, Catherina and Stephen McGarry, from Sallynoggin, Dublin. On November 27 1991, 24 years ago, their daughter Jennifer Anna was born in the Coombe hospital. It was a forceps...