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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: To go back again to the complement of staff, when the beds closed, I sought a derogation in person to make sure, because of the moratorium, that we could have permanent whole-time equivalents there. It is very important for older people especially that they have continuity in the staff they are seeing. My understanding, and what I want to achieve, is that 48 of 90 community nursing units...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: On the day in question, the HSE figure was 401 patients between those in emergency departments and those in the wards. Regardless of whether we use the INMO figure or the HSE figure, both are still far too high. I met the emergency department task force earlier this week. There is a new approach we put in place last year. Many emergency departments, many patients and their families, and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I accept that there has been progress in this regard. However, especially at bank holiday weekends, there seems to be a spike in the number of people who cannot get a hospital bed. The figure of 404 or whatever the actual figure is, is too many. We have the situation of hospital beds in the Irish public health system, which is a legacy issue. We all agree there needs to be more bed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: There are a few issues there which I will cover. First, there is an acknowledged deficit in the number of beds. The Deputy will be aware that, two weeks ago, we launched the new business plan, which includes 3,500 beds on top of the 1,200 that have already been opened. This Government will either have opened, have under construction, or now have fully committed to, on a site-by-site basis,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: The INMO appeared before the health committee two weeks ago and painted a very stark picture regarding capacity. The organisation is calling for thousands of extra beds in the public health system. It laid out where the deficiencies exist in the health system. INMO members are the people on the front line. The representatives focused on the lack of beds in the Irish health system where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, for years the INMO has been calling for an extra 5,000 beds, and we are adding nearly 5,000 beds. I did not see the glowing press release from the INMO welcoming all of this, but its members and doctors across the country whom I talk to are very happy with the new beds plan, partly because of the scale of it. It is beyond what people were expecting. People are expecting about 1,500...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Health Services Staff

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) states that many funded nursing vacancies arising from staff retiring, leaving or going on maternity leave are remaining unfilled due to the recruitment freeze and that this happening when there is unprecedented demand on our health services, meaning that various departments and community services are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I will be happy to get the Minister's answer on this question so I will skip my 30-second introduction.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to make sure I am addressing the correct question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I am taking his question as well, just to make things more complicated.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The number of nurses in our health service has been increasing dramatically in the lifetime of this Government. Since January 2020, right across the health service we have increased the number by almost 29,000 whole-time equivalents. It really has been a huge increase. Deputy Murphy asked specifically about nurses and midwifery. In the lifetime of this Government, the nursing and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. In nine hospitals, car parking is free. We have a bunch which charge up to €10 and then we have those three hospitals to which I referred. The latter will, understandably, tell us that this is all well and good but they need money to make it up. It is reasonable for them to state that there would be a funding shortfall in the context of the provision of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Tá muid ag dul ar ais go dtí Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently published the Irish national ICU audit annual report showing that an average 5.6 critical-care beds per 100,000 population were open in 2022, which is less than half the mean value of 12 for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, countries; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My question relates to the Irish national ICU audit. There was a recent audit on intensive care beds in the State. It pointed out a number of an anomalies and, obviously, deficiencies. There were also positive things in that report on our healthcare system. I wish to hear the Minister’s views on the report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought it was a very useful report. I have a lot of numbers here as I got into a lot of the numbers comparing our baseline with the OECD figures in preparation for this morning. The situation is better than the OECD comparison suggests. I will explain why. There is no question that we have had a shortage of intensive care beds. We know they are needed for very sick patients and for...