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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, is that 995?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am quoting from the figures in the winter plan. For acute beds, there was to be 1,228 but only 907 have been delivered. That is a shortfall of 321.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is Ms Day saying that there will be no additional beds provided in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am getting back to the target that was set the year before last and the year before that. The HSE has only managed to deliver 907, according to its own figures. There are 321 outstanding and Ms Day is saying that it will be at least 2024 before those beds are delivered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Ms Day just said that in 2023, there will be 184 beds delivered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What are the timelines? When will all of those beds that were promised a couple of years ago be delivered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: If the 1,228 beds were promised a couple of years ago, is there any credibility in the figures that Ms Day is using if it is going to take a total of four years, minimum, to deliver those beds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, I am quoting from the witnesses' figures, namely, the 1,228 bed that were planned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It does not look like that and I am not talking about the last ten years. I am talking about the situation now and what the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine is saying. It is all very well to say there are 51 additional consultants but if there are not any extra beds, there will continue to be a log jam.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, I am talking about beds. Will the witnesses present us with that schedule?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to continue this point. Is it not the case that there are long delays in delivering the promised beds and that there are no new additional beds provided for in this winter plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. According to the plan, there are no new beds provided for in this year's winter plan. That has been confirmed by a response from the HSE and the witnesses. There are no additional acute inpatient beds planned as part of the winter plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: These are targets that were set as far back as 2020.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The bottom line is the HSE has not delivered on the beds it committed to and it is not providing for any additional beds in this winter plan. I am going to move on. I want to raise the question of staffing. We have talked about the 51 consultants. What is the number of additional nurses for emergency departments in the winter plan? I can not find any figure within the plan for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Sixty two additional nurses going into emergency departments this winter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How many additional nurses will be made available in emergency departments this year in the winter plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I cannot see any figure in the winter plan for additional nurses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What is the number on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: RTÉ was reporting the HSE said in a press statement that 101 additional nursing staff would be provided.