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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 will come to this in the round in the first instance. The third-party insourcing we are referring to is a very small part of the overall service. It equates to two to three days' spend in the whole system. It is a very small part. The problem with third-party insourcing is that it was going in the wrong direction. The system was becoming dependent on it. At the same time, it was...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Barbara Keogh Dunne is fantastic. What has happened at Tallaght is an example to every other hospital in this country. When we were here in June and July, Tallaght's trolley numbers were not good. They were a persistent difficulty. The waiting time averaged about 13 hours. It is now down to about eight hours. It is appropriate to be in the emergency department for a certain period 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: This is why it is so frustrating to see other hospitals not being managed in this way. The pressure on staff in emergency departments is created because the rest of the hospital is not supporting them by making sure people are discharged at the weekend and that those other units are just as responsible for patient flow as everybody else. Of course, that pressure lands on top of 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 had specific questions on NTPF waiting times. Ms Conroy might be able to be offer assistance with those.

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 will be aware that I set the policy direction and the HSE CEO is responsible for the management and accountability. It is fair to say that Mr. Gloster and I have had a shared focus on increasing productivity, in particular emergency care presentations and the management of those. Part of it is that the symposium, conference or whatever we call it on 11 September had an important...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can the Senator be more specific? What does she mean?

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 fair to say that we bring the patient voice into everything that we can, whether the development of different clinical programmes. I might ask Ms Rachel Kenna to speak on that. Regarding hospital delivery, it is really up to us to make sure that we are consistently meeting the standards that we have set. It is not a choice. If people are on the public only consultant contract, they...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Two weeks ago on 17 September, Mr. Gloster hosted an absolutely packed national patient forum here. It was the day the Dáil came back, so I could not be there. We have incorporated the patient voice into the design of the HSE health app, for example. Every region now has a patient engagement lead. I still think it is our responsibility to make sure that we are delivering services anyway.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Senator. In relation to the beds in Limerick hospital, which have been identified as the most acute need, we have 138 beds opening this year. Regarding the next 96 being opened, I will ask Ms Broderick to confirm but I think at the end of this week patients are moving in.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Patients are moving into that 96-bed block. The enabling works for the second 96-bed block, which is literally right beside it, are well under way and we hope for a positive planning decision on that. There are a further 66 to develop. We have to be very honest. That hospital needs more acute beds. There is no question about it. It is a constrained site. It is difficult in terms 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: I see the trolley figures every day and Limerick is under enormous pressure because of patient acute capacity but there has been such change and I pay tribute to Ms Broderick; Dr. Catherine Peters, the clinical director of the region; and Mr. Ian Carter, the manager, because there are a couple of things that show it is going well. Limerick, despite being under an awful lot of pressure, has...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Although 73% of consultants have taken the public-only contract, I am sorry I am not able to tell the Senator the proportion working extended days and weekends in the same way I was able to in relation to Mullingar and other hospitals. However, I expect that when I meet that region in January, I will get more clarity and detail on what is happening there. Letterkenny is one of 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: No, it is not. Let me put it a different way. I said very clearly that the new manager in Tallaght University Hospital, Barbara Keogh Dunne, has done an exceptional job in turning around the patient flow in that hospital since the beginning of July this year, and I can track those hospital figures. Frankly, the manager and the IHA manger are responsible for patient flow in a hospital and...

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 add one thing regarding the patient flow in Letterkenny. As I said to Senator Boyle, there were 71 discharges on Friday and there were six people on trolleys on Saturday morning. There were ten discharges on Saturday and there were 16 people on trolleys on Sunday morning. There were six discharges on Sunday and there were 12 people on Monday morning and 20 people on Tuesday...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Similarly, in St. Vincent's University Hospital-----

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 can give the Senator details on where Letterkenny is on the red ranking, as it were, and the number of days it has been in red. It is not as bad as Mayo University Hospital, but not far off. I will get the Senator specifics.

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 point out Mayo University Hospital had an improvement last week.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Regarding the HIQA report on Limerick, we are progressing with option A immediately. HIQA says very clearly the inpatient bed capacity is an absolute necessity, and that is the case no matter what else we do. The 96 beds are opening over the next days. We hope we will get positive planning permission for the second block of 96 beds, which is right beside it. We are progressing another 66...

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 dealing with the HIQA report, which has been recommended. I agree about the overall capacity that is needed. I want to prioritise inpatient capacity, obviously. I have suggested - and I appreciate that it was before the Deputy arrived - that HIQA give a detailed briefing to the committee on its report and analysis. I am firmly of the view that more hospital capacity is needed....

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 114 beds.