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- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The staff in the hospital are working under extraordinary conditions. It is one of the most inadequate facilities in the country and needs to be replaced. I am not privy to the details of the stage it has reached in its design or architectural planning. The HSE has to send its service plan to the Minister for Health in the next week or ten days.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is very necessary that this piece of infrastructure be provided. As the Deputy is well aware and as he has seen at first hand, University Hospital Galway is a centre of excellence which has an enormous reach in terms of the different medical facilities provided. I assume the Deputy saw the new building that is under construction and which has been awaited for a very long time. He is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that it requires approval, design and planning, all of the processes that must be gone through, at the end of which a very substantial sum will be invested to replace it. I do not object to the point made by Deputy MIcheál Martin. The facility needs to be replaced, but we cannot replace it over night. As the Deputy is well aware from his own experience in this field, such...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the Deputy had responsibility for this, he said back in 2003 that the crisis was not his responsibility. I recall it well.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the Deputy comes to the House, why does he not ask me if I know what the design status is for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital or any other hospital around the country?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am well aware of the problem in so far as the accident and emergency department in University Hospital Galway is concerned.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It needs to be replaced and it cannot, and will not, be replaced overnight. There is a process to be gone through - planning, design, regulations and permission.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the Deputy comes to the House, he never mentions the 75-bed unit under construction at the moment. Did he see that?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps Deputy Martin did not want to see it or comment on it. He did not comment on the fact that 30 beds are being provided in the old physiotherapy unit, which will be opened in spring 2016.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin did not mention the fact that 14 additional beds are being provided in Merlin Park hospital. All of these go to ease the pressure on the emergency department in UHG.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Believe me-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the Health Service Executive has a responsibility to send its service plan to the Minister for Health.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I assume that if this project were to be shovel ready or ready to go, it would have been included.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: When Deputy Martin met the nurses and every other member of the medical personnel there, did they explain to him what stage of the design programme this is?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: So it was ready to go?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: In that case, the Deputy should follow his own logic. He visited Castlebar last week and he was welcome. He attended the Sacred Heart Home. His representatives there are saying it will never proceed, despite the fact there is €14 million on the table.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is wrong again. The Government concluded the Supplementary Estimate for health this morning, which is a serious increase on what was there for the past number of years. That is all aimed, within the prudent management of the economy, at attempting to provide the best level of service we can for patients. The Government remains committed to universal health care and the provision...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy had said sorry himself a few times in the past, it might have helped matters as well. Of course, Deputy Adams does not use the Irish public health service in the first place. The case that the Deputy mentioned, of the good lady-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The good lady who was admitted to the hospital and was on a trolley in the emergency department was then-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not take directions from Deputy Adams, but if he gets his people to hold their silence, he might hear.