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Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: I will make apologies because I have to go to the Chamber to speak. I will be back soon. Deputy Devlin will take over. I assure Deputy Donoghue that none of us believes that he ever had a brain-freeze.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: I apologise for stepping away and I thank Deputy Devlin for stepping in. I will not ask questions because most of them have probably been answered at this stage. I will give a quick brief of what has happened. In the HIQA report into St. Brigid's, did it give any recommendation to close St. Brigid's? No. We wish to let the public know before we finish this session. On what advice was...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: It is not an official report, is it?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: The HSE had thought about alternatives for St. Brigid's such as a diabetes clinic and all that. Has that been provided for Carrick-on-Suir and St. Brigid's?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: St. Brigid's and Carrick-on-Suir have lost out there as well. Are the families who would have used the services provided at St. Brigid's any longer able to care for their sick mother, father, brother or sister? Do they have to travel 40 km to Clogheen? I am from the constituency. I know how far away is Clogheen. I know there is no bus service or public transport. It must be absolutely...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: We will ask the witnesses for a closing statement, but before we finish, will they give the public a brief or maybe even a personal view of their experience of St. Brigid's? We have had other people before the committee with regard to thatched cottages, Owenacurra and other matters. Witnesses' personal experience of these services have really struck a chord with the public. I ask the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: Thank you.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: During this meeting and beforehand, we have heard about transferring care into the community. At the same time, we are seeing decisions such as the decision to close St. Brigid's. As I said, at the meeting at the Hotel Minella we heard about the closure of another 350 beds. It seems crazy and it is baffling at the same time. I do not believe Senator Craughwell, Deputy Buckley or any of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: When this committee was being set up and we were drawing up its terms of reference we asked all the party members to leave their political jerseys outside the door. That has been one of the big advantages of this committee. All parties and Independents have come together to help in cases such as St. Brigid's and the Owenacurra centre, as well as others who have come before us. I thank...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: Everyone who has spoken wants that answer, as does the group. We will seek that definition. I thank the witnesses again. It has been very beneficial for the committee. I assure the witnesses that we will have the HSE and HIQA before the committee and see where we go from there. We will suspend for five minutes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: We have three petitions for consideration today. Petition No. 21 of 2021 is entitled Taking in Charge from Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to the request the local authority taking in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross in Tipperary. This petition has been before the Committee on Public Petitions a few times. The petitioner presented to us...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. 29 of 2022 is entitled Research on Topical Steroid Withdrawal, submitted by Ms Neave Tugwell. The petitioner seeks to raise awareness of the issue among medical professionals and believes this is a preventable condition. The secretariat corresponded with the head of the Oireachtas co-ordination unit at the Department of Health on 30 June 2022 regarding this petition and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. 35 of 2022 is entitled Amend Child Care Act 1991 to provide HIQA with the necessary powers to sanction Tusla, Child and Family Agency when it fails to meet its statutory obligations, submitted by Ms Anna Kavanagh. This petition is from representatives of the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice, ABC, which advocates for some birth mothers - not all - who have had...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: Our next business is our engagement with Ms. Susan Mullins and Mr. Barry Torpey who are representing the Save St. Brigid’s Action Group. This concerns Petition No. 48 of 2021, Save St. Brigid’s Hospital, from Councillor David Dunne. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references to other...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: I agree. We say after every meeting the amount of work the secretariat, under Maggie Semple, does for us is unbelievable. It makes our job very easy, so I thank Susan Moran, Barbara Hughes and everybody else involved in getting these petitions together. That concludes our consideration of public petitions. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our on-line portal, which is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: We will adjourn. I thank everyone for participating today and wish everybody the best. My thanks again to Maggie and the secretariat.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to change the bands for social housing to better reflect the reality of the housing market (details supplied). [2502/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: 309. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans in place to ensure non-medical card patients are not left without a GP when their GP retires (details supplied). [2501/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the resources that will be made available to implement the new protocol that would allow the National Ambulance Service to bring certain patients to the medical assessment unit, Nenagh; the needs that he foresees Nenagh as needing to address this new demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be taken to address the backlog caused by the cancellation of inpatient and outpatient appointments in the UL Hospitals Group as a result of reductions in scheduled care following the declaration of a major internal incident at University Hospital Limerick on 2 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2533/23]