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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 324. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason the men’s sheds sustainability grant moneys were not administered by the LCDC as has been the case to date, when no change has occurred within the memorandum and articles of the IMSA to state that it is the men’s sheds’ representative body; if the IMSA is to be considered the official representative...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will meet, at her earliest opportunity, a delegation of representatives from a number of individual men’s sheds who have concerns in respect of the manner in which the men’s sheds sustainability grant has been administered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6277/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise on behalf of Deputy O'Donoghue, who is absent because his cousin died.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their engagement. I thank Ms Anne Walsh especially for her work on the services in Clogheen. We have been through all this with Clogheen hospital. It is a fabulous institution with significant local involvement. It is the sister hospital to Carrick-on-Suir. We saw what transpired there. Great people before me and political people insisted that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Was Mr. Ruane in the HSE in his present job at that time?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are facts, as far as I am concerned.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I will look for the facts. The HIQA report does not state anywhere that it is not fit for purpose. It decided it was fit for purpose for a Covid step-down facility as recently as 2020. Imagine that it was fit to be a step-down facility for Covid, with all the associated requirements, and then it was suddenly not. As I said, the 2019 fire report does not state anything. One cannot pick...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I heard all that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: And I accept that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We accept that they could cut down the numbers and keep the hospital.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I want to find out about the bank account, about the funds.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What does that mean "to manage" it?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to discuss that further with Ms Killeen White. There was a committee that organised it. Could any of them arrive up and say to get it? I am not sure how the mechanics of that will work. I will debate that with on another occasion Ms Killeen White.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: How come? Surely they had to get planning permission to build it, and adjacent to, if not in, a floodplain. Surely that should have come up in planning.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: And yet they are saying that they can raise the hospital by 1 ft.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Briefly, I am reading from a report here that the action committee have. The evacuation report from the HSE dated 2019 raised no such issues of evacuation. It is fine that Mr. Ruane talks of moving patients into different rooms. Patient safety is so important. However, we cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It is an old building and one cannot apply new standards to old...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am not withdrawing it. It is a total cover-up, full stop.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The backbenchers have been rounded up to come in and defend the Government. It is a laughing stock.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that.