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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Minister has no concerns about rising costs yet or about the projected timeline.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: And Mr. Breslin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: What scale of submissions have they got?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Can Mr. Reid come back to the committee and advise us of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand they are at a fairly significant scale.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept negotiations have to happen. In terms of the scale of this, the months that will take will affect the timelines, and the scale of the claims go way beyond what the team expected. There are significant issues on the site. From a cost point of view and a timeline point of view, they will impact significantly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: -----because the negotiations-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Obviously, it will take a number of months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Has there been any change in the design of the hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: A presentation was made to the board on 3 April, which basically outlined issues relating to costs and timelines. Mr. Reid might send a copy of that to the committee in the next week or so. If there was a further update on that presentation, he might send it to us also. Has Mr. Breslin anything to add?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Will this affect the actual project timelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: We will see in the coming weeks and months. Regarding University Hospital Limerick, UHL, I got mobilised into politics because I opposed the Hanly report. I have a sign up in my office from that time. There was the Teamwork report and all the other reports. In fairness, the Minister was one of the first Ministers to come in here and say that reconfiguration in the mid-west was a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am a mid-west TD and a number of colleagues here are from Clare and Limerick. The situation in UHL is the worst I, or any of us, have ever seen. I want to take this out of party politics, genuinely, because I live among these people. I live over the road from this hospital even though I am in a different county. This is something I take a personal interest in every day. I have never...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: We are way behind. There are short-term, medium-term and long-term needs. In the short term we need more transitional beds and more nurses and doctors. It is obvious what needs to happen to integrate the services with non-acute services. What Maria Bridgeman is trying to deal with in the hospital is also impossible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: We have a 60-bed modular unit but it will not be delivered in the timeline originally put forward. We need to be honest about that. I do not wish to make a political point of it but it will not be delivered until the following year. Let us call a spade a spade. The 90 bed unit will not be provided for in the three-year capital plan. The issue is the estimated €40 million...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: We need intervention and we need it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I do not want Mr. Reid to take this the wrong way but the response is pathetic. This is a crisis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is discrimination at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Why is it a three-year plan instead of a five-year plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Minister does not expect us to believe that.