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- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I appreciate that but this is maybe the fourth or fifth time we have got these assurances that documentation will be given to members of our committee or members of the public, and the only thing we have got back is a redacted document. We could see about a dozen lines out of six pages and everything else was redacted.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I appreciate that but-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Representatives of the HSE have again come before an Oireachtas committee. Surely they knew documentation was going to be looked for again. Why has it not been made available, even before the meeting, given they knew it was going to be asked for? All we are looking for is the likes of the minutes. As I said to Mr. Ryan on the previous occasion, everybody has an opinion. I might have an...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: On the last question I asked concerning the beds in Clonmel and Thomastown, is a commitment being given that they will be opened in 2024?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Right. I call Deputy Canney.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Hourigan.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Does Mr. Ryan want to come back in?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Before I let Senator Craughwell in, I will ask a question. I welcome the re-examination of the position relating to Seven Springs, but no one like Mr. Fitzmaurice seems to have come on board to re-examine decisions made about Owenacurra and St. Brigid's. Why was it decided to re-examine only one of the three? As I have said, I totally welcome the decision regarding Seven Springs but each...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: As I said, that was the wrong wording. It was not that one was pitted against the others but there was a decision made to re-examine-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I will ask about one other thing. The last time the witnesses were in, there was mention of the old workhouse possibly being refurbished but this was not mentioned in the opening statement. Is that now off the table?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Is Deputy Canney happy?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Does Mr. Ryan wish to respond?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I want to say something before Ms O'Donovan comes in. I appreciate what Mr. Ryan is saying, but the incidents we have seen in Owenacurra and St. Brigid's especially, moving people back to care in their homes is moving people farther away from their families.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Owenacurra has been raised by more than one person, including Deputy Hourigan on several occasions. We have raised the issue of St. Brigid's District Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Clogheen is 40 minutes' drive away. St. Teresa's is that distance away from Carrick-on-Suir with no public transport. It is hard to say they are trying to bring care back into people's homes....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I have a couple of points on Owenacurra and some on St. Brigid's. In the opening statement, the HSE referred to a plan to provide a ten-bed purpose-built rehabilitative residential unit in Midleton. Where does that stand? Has funding been ring-fenced for that project? When is it due to be completed?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Is the money ring-fenced?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: So there is no guarantee.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Going back to something Mr. Ryan said, that it could not be done on the site of Owenacurra, I spent 35 years in construction and there were many buildings where they had a lack of services. I remember Tallaght nurses' hospital. That was built up while all the services went on right beside it in the same building. This idea that you cannot keep building or that you need to clear everything...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I appreciate that but he went to Cork to see the Owenacurra centre from where people are being moved. They are being moved to St. Stephen's and St. Finbarr's hospitals. Surely as CEO, when he was checking Owenacurra centre, he should have visited the places to which patients were being moved as well, especially when concerns had been raised about those two hospitals?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Deputy Hourigan raised this issue and Deputy Buckley has asked us to raise it. Is there coercion involved in patients being moved? The last time Deputy Buckley raised this issue the representatives of the HSE who were here would not even consider to it. They reckoned that coercion was not even a possibility. Some members of the committee expressed dissatisfaction with the need to transfer...