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Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, facilitated the closure of Loughlinstown ED as well. He bought into the lie that existed that the closure of EDs would somehow make people safer. It certainly has not, and the Government needs to apologise for the closure of the EDs.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, Aoife Johnston's death at UHL was almost certainly avoidable. What is happening day in, day out at UHL presents a shocking, appalling vista, all because the Government closed down Nenagh, St. John's and Ennis emergency departments and expected UHL to do the work without putting in place the necessary beds or staff. I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, quipping across...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: To break away from the subject for two seconds and to break the ice a small bit, I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her direct work on, interest in and genuine concern for Ocean View nursing home in County Kerry. I will not go into detail but just wanted to thank her on the record. I acknowledge and appreciate her genuine interest – I really do – and so does...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

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Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry to hear that. It is a shame.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support Sinn Féin's motion. Like everyone else, I was horrified by Aoife Johnston's death. As I said at the time and since, I honestly believe that those culpable for her death or neglecting her should be brought to book – no question about it. They should pay a price of some kind, depending on the seriousness of their neglect, for what they did not do. I am very worried...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Sherlock: We move to the Regional Group and Deputy Canney, who is sharing time with Deputies Lowry and Tóibín.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: The issue of University Hospital Limerick is very concerning for everyone. While I am not from Limerick and it is not in my area, I agree wholeheartedly with Deputy Boyd Barrett that there is an artificial dumbing-down of figures of employment. It is like a puzzle, trying to figure out what is actually happening with recruitment in the HSE. It is completely different from what is being...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Michael Lowry: University Hospital Limerick is an ongoing serious problem. There is massive difficulty relating to overcrowding and poor delivery of service. There is obviously a problem with bed capacity, staff numbers and patient care. The hospital serves the constituency I represent in north Tipperary. Daily, and almost hourly, I receive calls from people complaining and giving out about the...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to express my deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Aoife Johnston. Her death was a catastrophic disaster for her family and friends. Aoife was 16 years old when she died. Incredibly, she had to wait 12 hours in hospital before receiving treatment. Reading the report issued by Mr. Justice Clarke, it is incredible what happened in that situation. Aoife was triaged as a...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We go now to People Before Profit-Solidarity. Is Deputy Boyd Barrett sharing with Deputy Mick Barry?

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: Yes - three minutes and seven, a Cheann Comhairle.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Not a very equal spread.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Quality, not quantity.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: In 2009, the emergency departments at Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's in Limerick were shut down under the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government. They were downgraded to minor injury units. This arrangement has been kept in place by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government and successive governments since then, leaving the only model 4 hospital in the entire region at University Hospital...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I am happy to support. I will not get into the discussion about whether it goes too far or far enough other than to say I bow to the knowledge of people in the region, whether they are campaigners or political representatives, who I am sure know a hell of a lot more than me about the details of what is happening to the health...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: He is back.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good. Fair play to you, Minister. I support the motion. The case of Aoife Johnston, her tragic and unavoidable death, should be a wake-up call for everybody. Something like that should not have happened. It is absolutely tragic and no doubt linked to massive overcrowding and the fact that she was left on a trolley for 13 hours without the medication she needed to save her life. Her...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this timely motion on healthcare capacity in the mid-west. I thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. Following publication of the Clarke report into Aoife Johnston's tragic death, there must be accountability at both political and management level. Notwithstanding its shortcomings, the report effectively highlights the underlying causes of compromised patient care and...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is a pertinent motion because my father is in an ambulance on the way to UHL at the moment. I have just come off the phone. That is why I have been in and out a bit. He has been quite unwell lately. Both of my parents have been quite unwell for some time and the last thing my father ever wants to do is to go to UHL. Forget about politics...