Results 45,661-45,680 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: A range of issues is being looked at. I will come to the second emergency department in a moment. The point I am making is that to achieve the change we want in UHL, two things have to happen: capacity has to increase and there have to be substantial changes in how the hospital is run and care is delivered. University Hospital Waterford before Grace Rothwell went in was the worst...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I think you mean the 96-bed block.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I believe we take that block over in quarter 1 of next year and 71 of those beds will be net new beds, while 25 while be replacement beds. On the 16-bed block, I have asked the HSE and it has committed to it, subject to procurement. It has to follow a legal process. The HSE has committed that, subject to procurement, that will be towards the end of this year.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Not only do I support it, but we are moving to the regions this year and have the six executives in place. This year we will do the budget as normal but with a regional allocation to show. As I am sure the Deputy will accept, it will not be perfect to begin with.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: We will then move to regional budgeting.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I do, yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I have asked HIQA to come back to me with an answer on exactly that because if HIQA recommends a second ED - and I have no idea whether or not it will - what I have put into the terms of reference is that only comes with a model 3 hospital. We will have an independent expert view on that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As I said to the Deputy, there is no hospital in Ireland that has had more additional resources than UHL. It has had a 43% increase in its budget in the lifetime of this Government. That is unheard of. UHL has had an extra 1,2000 staff. That is unheard of. There is no other hospital getting that kind of additional resource. Talking about the consultants, an extra 49 consultants are in...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I think I would entirely disagree with that proposal and the data is unambiguous. We have invested more in UHL than in any hospital in the country so to suggest there is some-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: If I can just finish, to suggest we are somehow resisting resourcing a hospital where the data clearly shows we have resourced it more than any hospital in the country simply does not stack up.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: All I can talk to is what has happened during the lifetime of this Government. I am not here to defend the ratios in 2020-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but what I can say very clearly is I agree with the Deputy's analysis of the starting point and in response to that we have resourced this hospital more than any other hospital in the country. We have to resource other hospitals as well.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: If the Deputy visits the site, which I am sure she has, she will see the physical manifestation of that which is in-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What I am saying to the Deputy is there are two 96-bed blocks being built on site at the moment. When they are finished they will be fully staffed. That means more nurses, more health and social care professionals and more consultants. If the Deputy is asking me if UHL needs more and if the region needs more, absolutely it does and we will continue to invest.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What we can do is give that information for the new regions. The complication of the hospital groups is that they overlap all over the place, as the Deputy knows. There are several hospital groups in Dublin that cover overlapping areas so it has never really been possible to say this is the population served by all of the hospital groups but we can for the regions. That is one of the great...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Again, I flatly reject the suggestion there has been any resistance. The Deputy is talking about a region------
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is talking about a region that has had an unprecedented level of investment.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There is a further level of investment in the pipeline and I have now asked the independent regulator to assess the case for a second ED.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I'll just finish on this as well.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I have said publicly many times I do not believe the reconfiguration was done properly. I fully accept the advice that led to the closing of the EDs but the kinds of resources that are being put in place now should have been put in place back then. That is exactly how we have approached Navan hospital, for example, to say we are not making any changes until the extra capacity is in place.