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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Chair and members of the committee. I am very pleased to be here with my departmental officials Tracey Conroy, assistant secretary for acute hospitals, Derek Tierney, assistant secretary for health infrastructure, Louise McGirr, assistant secretary for resources, and Rachel Kenna, chief nursing officer, along with our HSE colleagues Bernard Gloster, CEO, Stephen Mulvany, CFO,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. He raised many different issues. I will respond to as much as I can. Productivity needs digital, but digital is not the answer to productivity. Both need to happen. I am seeing some good evidence in different regions of more productivity. Let me give a couple of examples. In Beaumont Hospital, for example, since August 2025, we have had Saturday clinics operating...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is our intention, Deputy, but at the same time I need to make sure that we are meeting patient need and we are driving very hard on productivity in the meantime. That is our intention and I can understand that this is an important change that creates some difficulty, potentially, for some hospital managers and that there may be local resistance to some of that but at the same time we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not want it to change, I just recognise that I do not know for certain but that is where we are driving to. We will consider that, as I always said we would, but that is where we are going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Obviously I have the same information as-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No problem. It is one of the most important issues. Obviously I have the same information as Mr Tierney. I really want to be very clear about the balance in this. We together are paying BAM to deliver this hospital and we together, the Irish State, has a contract with BAM, which it has to deliver. The Deputy is absolutely right to identify all of those changing dates. It is really...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have read the HIQA report and the 1,200 pages that go behind it, which I think is very important. I hope that the committee will take the opportunity of a briefing from HIQA on some of the different demographic issues that have been identified in the analysis and some of the different pressures that can be seen or not. The HIQA does not identify any location for a model 3 hospital. Of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The report also says that of the three options, HIQA is very clearly not leaning in that direction. It says that the priority is inpatient beds and that option C would take the longest to deliver and would not meet patient needs. My perspective is that a 1,200 page report was published on Tuesday and it is very important that we reflect on the intersection between-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am trying to answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My perspective is that I look at all of those different options and I want to reflect on them and see where we need to go with it, but I am very open to all three options. However, my priority from a patient safety perspective, is unquestionably, delivering acute inpatient beds in Limerick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is exactly right. The Mallow facility will open this year with the addition of 24 beds. The Deputy is right to identify the need for the Blarney beds as well. Particularly across the south west, there has been a difficulty in moving patients.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is correct. What I am saying is that in an effort to turn the tide on that, we have increased the fees available by 47%. However, it is still the case that we do not have people choosing to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I might ask Rachel, who is in charge of workforce planning, to come in on that.