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Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How are they funded again?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That response is like reading something from Kafka, an author who is very difficult to read. A post in Connemara has disappeared and will not be filled. People have been told to travel to Galway city and I asked Mr. Mulvany whether there was a policy in place. He said there was if a post was not filled after a certain period of time.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What did Mr. Mulvany say in that case? I am open to correction.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It may well cause one actually.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let me try just once more.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: No, I am still reading Kafka actually. Let us take the circumstances again. In a setting in Connemara in the heart of the Gaeltacht there is one physiotherapy post providing services to that area. The therapist leaves the post for some reason and it is decided the post will not be filled. Can the HSE stand over a decision like that?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have raised this repeatedly.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I hear what Mr. O'Brien says. I am making a general point in relation to a Gaeltacht area and a-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If Mr. O'Brien could listen, please.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking a general question about an essential service in a Gaeltacht area. Mr. O'Brien might bear that in mind when he answers it in written form. I have pursued this issue through correspondence and parliamentary questions since last August. That is that. I will return to whether the health service has adequate funding and the collateral damage of having people on trolleys and long...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. O'Brien aware that Galway is in an acute crisis where it is being forced to not admit people?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: At the moment there is collateral damage because people cannot get admission to a psychiatric unit in a centre of excellence. Is that something they just have to put up with?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is what it has been called by the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It has been used repeatedly at the health forum in Galway. In any event, let us not argue over a term, although it has been used repeatedly. That is the position in Galway and Mr. O'Brien is fully aware of it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is certainly daft that in a health service with a budget of almost €15 billion, a psychiatric service is refusing to admit patients as we speak.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We did not have a conversation.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I posed some questions, actually.