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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)

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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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ciarán Cannon, Imelda Munster, John Brady and Verona Murphy. I welcome the witnesses. I would remind all those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege, and the practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses may...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I call Mr. O'Connor.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Catherine Murphy. I call Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Devlin is next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: When the information is sent on, could the properties be categorised as residential or commercial?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It should not just be a list stating two properties in Baggot Street, for example. It is essential that we get the detail. To return to the issue of the national children's science centre, in 2000 the OPW committed to the redesign and restoration of the Earlsfort Terrace building. Planning permission was sought and it was granted in 2018 or 2019, I believe. Then there was a request for...