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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Will that review come back before the committee at some point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone from UL Hospitals Group. Given the time constraints, I would be very grateful if the witnesses could move quickly through my questions. What sets the UL Hospitals Group apart from others? Why do we have this HIQA report? Why are we incessantly hearing about the UL Hospitals Group and not Saolta or other groups, whose representative have appeared before this committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is there another regional hospitals group in the country with a similar population base and similar hospital infrastructure that we in the mid-west could emulate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The UHL emergency department had a record attendance of 76,473 in 2021. Why such high attendance? Repeatedly, we hear management correctly state on radio programmes that there are different pathways for patients to be seen and people do not always have to attend at an emergency department. Will Professor Lenehan explain the reason for the record attendance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Five weeks ago, I accompanied a relative who was attending the UHL accident and emergency unit. People go to reception, are triaged and must then wait for a long time, which I think they have come to expect. Eventually, they are seen in the accident and emergency unit. There is not enough follow-up done in the corridors while people are waiting. Deputies hear this repeatedly from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The patient advocacy and liaison service needs improvement and we need more of that service. I compliment all the staff, as have others. We want to hammer home the message that we appreciate the great work done by staff. I know that morale can often be low in the hospitals group when staff hear incessantly on the airwaves about failures or services that do not work. The staff are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: They did not, but they found deficiencies in management. The captain of any ship should be on the ship, not based remotely from it. I will move on to the elective hospital, where things are going in the future. Ward 8D, where I recently visited someone, is incredible. It is the future, and it is where we all want to get to. We are supportive of this. The ward is what we hope the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Are Paul Reid and Robert Watt with the UL Hospitals Group on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Professor Cowan for all her engagement today. It is really appreciated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I want to come in with a few additional questions arising from earlier. Just before the Dáil rose for the summer, Mr. Robert Watt and Mr. Paul Reid sat directly across from the witnesses in this same room. Both Senator Conway and I extensively probed the idea of an elective hospital in the mid-west. It was very obvious it is not something they support. As they have advised...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Since the inception of this State - and this is in all countries - there is the so-called permanent government; the Civil Service is there to provide advice and memos are given to Government. The advice given to this Government is that there should be only three elective hospitals and Limerick is not there. People prepared that advice for better or worse. For all his positives and flaws,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am not looking to get my tooth fast-tracked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Does Ms Bridgeman think the HSE could map it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We would love to see it. It would be a very important tool in here for us to argue and leverage for more. I will keep going if Ms Bridgeman does not mind because there are a few other issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Bridgeman very much. Inis Gile is a 17-bed facility in Parteen in my home parish that was last used by mental health services in the mid-west approximately three years ago. It was fully kitted out and fully upgraded. It was used for a few weeks as a vaccination centre during Covid-19 but has lain idle since. I have suggested to Government and everyone that it should perhaps be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a few quick fire questions I might get in. Ms Bridgeman might update us on where the new maternity hospital is at. Information-sharing systems are very poor and not just in UHL group collectively. I know somebody who on the day of discharge muttered something like, "Sure didn't I get over prostate cancer two years ago". The blood ran out of the care team's faces because hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is one being developed within the group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It would greatly speed up triage.