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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Cannabis for Medicinal Use

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if the review planned by his Department on the medical cannabis access programme has begun; if so, when he expects it to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25788/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: My question is about the ongoing review of the medical cannabis access programme. As the Minister knows, the Health Research Board did a very extensive review which was published in January. It recommended a number of progressive changes to the medical cannabis access programme, which at the moment is stagnant in terms of patients who can access medical cannabis treatment. I would like to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge the Deputy's ongoing advocacy and work in the Oireachtas on this issue. From a policy perspective, I want to take a very open approach to medicinal cannabis-based products. We want to make sure it is safe for patients, obviously, and we will always follow the clinical advice. Within that, I have told the Department and the HSE that there should be no idea of shutting these...

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

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister. In certain areas, there are pressures on staff. Probably one good example is public health nurses in CHO 7. In CHO 7 in Clondalkin and Lucan, there are no public health nurses whatsoever. This is very worrying. I got a response to a parliamentary question on why public health nurses could not be recruited and the reason was that new public health nurses just could...

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

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I fully agree and we had a debate with his colleague, Deputy Smith, recently on exactly this. There are parts of the country where they have found it very difficult to recruit or replace public health nurses. It is not something that can be allowed to stand. Public health nurses are doing essential work with infants and with older people. We cannot have babies for...

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

Hospital Closures

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

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 33 of 2 May 2024, to provide an update on the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital can remain open on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25537/24]

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

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Ministers are here. Táimid ar ais arís go dtí an ospidéal sa Chlochán. I am asking for an update for the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital will remain open on a permanent basis. Will the Ministers zone in on that in their contributions?

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

Mary Butler: I put on record the Deputy's constant advocacy regarding Clifden hospital which I was delighted to visit last year. We know there has been challenges in staffing so I will focus on that. Following a derogation I secured, I am pleased to inform the Deputy that HSE community healthcare west has now successfully recruited the required staff to safely reopen Clifden District Hospital. The...

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. It is not a mutual admiration club but I want to pay tribute to her own hands-on approach. Having said that, this hospital has been limping from week to week. Back in October 2022, which is almost four years ago, it was announced that Clifden hospital would be closing. It was a terrible blow and all of the local representatives, those from Fine Gael, Fianna...

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

Mary Butler: As the Deputy knows, the HSE community healthcare west is committed to the new 40-bed community nursing bed in Clifden. The new CNU build will amalgamate the residential services currently in Clifden hospital and in St. Anne's. The new build will allow long-term care currently provided in St. Anne's and convalescent step-down care currently provided in Clifden hospital on the one site. The...

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

Catherine Connolly: Yesterday, there were 57 people on trolleys in Galway. I will be coming to this later in Leader's Questions. I give forewarning to the Minister there and to the Taoiseach that I will be coming back to Galway later. There were 57 people on trolleys. Have any of us spent time on trolleys? If we did, I think it would be sorted out very quickly. We go back again. There are beds empty in...

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