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Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----who are critically ill.They also do not understand-----

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----why there cannot be some form of step-down facility-----

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----in order to alleviate the pressure.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is not completely an IR issue, it is a fact that the hospital does not have enough nurses, and the Department of Health needs to acknowledge that, as does the HSE. It is all very well to say the hospital will turn down the request for nurses, but I ask the Minister at least to engage at a level at which we will have a decision sometime soon because the place cannot take it at the moment....

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----me and other public representatives-----

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----with the HSE in the near future-----

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----when this plan is published.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: We should meet when there is a plan.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is rather current expenditure that is required.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I hope there is a decision soon.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The hospital needs nurses.

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 32. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Our Lady's Hospital in Cashel in view of the volume of capital investment in the facility. [4409/17]

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The date 24 October will long live in the Minister's memory because it was the day he visited the, for want of a better phrase, "phantom hospital" in Cashel. By any standard, it was bizarre, and I think the Minister acknowledged that fact. The hospital being visited by the Minister for Health did not have a single patient. A huge amount of funding has been put into the hospital and that...

Other Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. There is welcome news in it given that a plan is to be put in place. However, let us get down to brass tacks. The hospital in Clonmel is under incredible pressure and the accident and emergency unit is overcrowded. It does not have enough space. In the past few weeks, the HSE turned down a request for extra nurses and staff. It turned it down, despite...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 126. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in his analysis of the way private accident and emergency departments will be used during peaks in public accident and emergency department usage. [4410/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if the new emergency department in University Hospital Limerick will be funded and opened on schedule in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he proposes to fully fund the national maternity strategy; and the funding spent to date in 2017. [4408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 150. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the country's accident and emergency departments; and if he will consider opening new minor injury units and guarantee all current accident and emergency departments are maintained. [4522/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Tipperary constituency in 2015 and 2016. [4308/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to theTipperary constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016. [4309/17]