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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: We are training more and we are trying to increase the number of clinical placements because the number of university places has been increased. Rachel and I have been working with CORU, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and the Medical Council to try to improve registration times. I have a couple of updates. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland confirmed to us that more...

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 will ask Bernard to address 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: We are seeing some good progress in how this is being done. As long as that incentive exists, it is a huge----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is only a small proportion. The third-party insourcing represents a very small proportion of the overall activity. It is just that it is significant that we arrest it before it becomes too dominant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On the value of focusing on the productivity model, the Mater, for example, is a hospital with 80% of the consultants on the POCC. It is one of the first hospitals that has put in serious Saturday rostering. There have been 293 additional procedures since they started opening an additional theatre on Saturday. Now they are looking at how they can open additional theatres to support model 3...

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 want to be very clear about the elective hospitals. We are looking for planning next year for the Cork elective hospital. We are proceeding with the elective hospitals and the surgical hubs. One of the things we need to look at is the balance between additional surgical hub capacity and where we can reconfigure even further without potentially going for another elective. There may be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is a commitment to four new elective hospitals. It is just that I am aware that there might be more efficient ways of doing it in Dublin that we should also consider. I think there is capacity in Dublin that we might not have previously considered and we might see how that intersects with an additional elective hospital. I will ask Mr. Tierney to confirm the funding.

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 met Gillian and Stephen Sherratt and am very grateful to them for that meeting, which was a very important one. There is no agreement regarding the nature of a particular type of inquiry. We are exploring all of the different options. The Senator will recall that different forms of inquiry can take very different lengths of time. Some of them preclude the information used in the...

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 Senator and I have discussed this in the Seanad and he has been an ongoing advocate, particularly on the urological side. I am not happy. There has been a gap, particularly in Temple Street, regarding the urological waiting lists. I might ask Ms Conroy to come in, as she has policy responsibility.

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 careful about using that word. I am not happy about the services provided to the group of children with spina bifida, hydrocephalus and complex spinal services. In every way, I am not happy about it. I want to see where it needs to improve. Could I ask-----

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 use it. An audit into spinal services and urology is proceeding at the moment, precisely because of my concerns about how those lists have been managed and continue to be managed. I am expecting that audit in the end of November or December. I cannot say further than that. I do not want to step across the work that the auditor is doing. I may very well use that word, but I would...

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 absolutely respect 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: Okay. I might ask Ms Louise McGirr to come in on the imbalance and the regional issue the Deputy spoke about. There are quite a lot of updates in relation to Mullingar and Tullamore. We will do that first, if that is okay?

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 will come in on that. What we have been doing - we started this in September - is bringing all the hospitals together to show what each is doing. I will meet them all again in January to see where their progress is and again in April. Some of the excellent examples of good work need to be rolled out to all. Let me give the Deputy an example in relation to Mullingar. Of Mullingar's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: May I give the Deputy an update specifically on Mullingar in relation to the changes recently implemented to try to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay. I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We cannot give the Deputy anything further than 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: Sure.

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 will ask Mr. Gloster to come in on the last question and then Mr. Tierney and Ms Conroy in relation to diagnostics and oncology.

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 Ms Conroy to come in. One of the developments in Galway is that the acute oncology service is now operating 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday. Ms Conroy might like to come in on some of the more-----