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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: As I said, sometimes difficult decisions have to be taken for the greater good. The decision to utilise the new Nenagh community nursing unit building, on an interim basis, as a step-down, sub-acute and rehabilitation facility was taken to alleviate the significant pressures on University Hospital Limerick. The intention is that the arrangement will be reviewed within one year - I have...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: It is dependent on the 96-bed unit being finished.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: An older person with a urinary tract or kidney infection who needs intravenous drugs and fluids can be brought to the community nursing unit and avoid the emergency department in Limerick. Please God, they will be back home with their loved ones within 48 to 72 hours. It is not a decision that was taken lightly, but it was taken for the greater good to try to support the emergency...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: As I mentioned earlier in the Chamber, plans have been announced to repurpose the new community care nursing unit in Nenagh. The decision to change it from a public facility to a privately run stepdown facility, in order to take pressure off UHL, is a prime example of robbing Peter to pay Paul and moving the deckchairs around. Again, it is the elderly in the area who will suffer. It...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: There are two sides to the coin here. When one is in government, sometimes difficult decisions have to be made for the greater good. This was not a decision that was arrived at lightly. We have two situations. On the one hand, the Government has committed to improving access to acute services across the mid-west region. This includes significant and sustained investment in a range of...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: On the Minister of State's last point, 50 patients will come from UHL to the new unit. Twenty patients in the existing St. Conlon's facility are waiting to move into the kind of facility that the Minister of State is talking about. They will be left in the old St. Conlon's. I did not give the impression that HIQA turned down St. Conlon's. All I said was that HIQA had previously reported...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: It is registered so it is compliant.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: I accept that "rejected" is probably the wrong word. They have been told the unit is not fit-for-purpose anymore. I do not want my parents or other people having to walk on unsafe floorboards in a nursing home. I want them to have toilets in their room and visitors not having to sit on beds. If hoists have to be used for elderly people, I do not want lockers and so on to have to be...