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Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: Yes - three minutes and seven, a Cheann Comhairle.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Not a very equal spread.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Quality, not quantity.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: In 2009, the emergency departments at Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's in Limerick were shut down under the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government. They were downgraded to minor injury units. This arrangement has been kept in place by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government and successive governments since then, leaving the only model 4 hospital in the entire region at University Hospital...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I am happy to support. I will not get into the discussion about whether it goes too far or far enough other than to say I bow to the knowledge of people in the region, whether they are campaigners or political representatives, who I am sure know a hell of a lot more than me about the details of what is happening to the health...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: He is back.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good. Fair play to you, Minister. I support the motion. The case of Aoife Johnston, her tragic and unavoidable death, should be a wake-up call for everybody. Something like that should not have happened. It is absolutely tragic and no doubt linked to massive overcrowding and the fact that she was left on a trolley for 13 hours without the medication she needed to save her life. Her...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this timely motion on healthcare capacity in the mid-west. I thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. Following publication of the Clarke report into Aoife Johnston's tragic death, there must be accountability at both political and management level. Notwithstanding its shortcomings, the report effectively highlights the underlying causes of compromised patient care and...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is a pertinent motion because my father is in an ambulance on the way to UHL at the moment. I have just come off the phone. That is why I have been in and out a bit. He has been quite unwell lately. Both of my parents have been quite unwell for some time and the last thing my father ever wants to do is to go to UHL. Forget about politics...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I said end of Quarter 1.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: No, you did not. I listened back.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I will check.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: He said it will be mid year. Why do I always watch that? It is not only because we need it. It is because the opening of our famous nursing home in Nenagh is dependent on it. When that block opens, our nursing home will return to being a nursing home. It should never have happened. Medical assessment units, MAUs, were meant to be open 24 hours. That will not happen. I think the...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy O'Rourke is sharing time with Deputies O'Reilly and Conway-Walsh.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Deputy Cullinane for bringing forward this important motion. I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnston. In my contribution, I want to focus on capacity and call out what has been a dominant theme in healthcare planning in this jurisdiction and State for the past 30 years, namely, centralisation. We had the Hanly report at the start of...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to start by offering my condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnston. I have read sections of the report and your heart would break in half listening to what happened to her parents. It must have been awful. As the report said, the family felt powerless amid all of the chaos of accident and emergency all around them. My grandmother died in accident and...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I want to send my condolences to the family of Aoife Johnston, a beautiful 16-year-old girl who lost her life. It could have been completely avoidable. That is the issue in terms of the healthcare we are delivering in 2024. How many more people have had their lives cut short because they have not received the timely healthcare they need and deserve? We do not know exactly...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputies opposite for tabling tonight's motion. It provides a welcome and much-needed opportunity to discuss the additional capacity and reforms that are needed in the mid-west region to provide people with something they do not currently have and that they must have, which is a well-functioning emergency department and timely access to emergency and urgent care. It is every...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Martin Browne: I commend Deputy Cullinane for bringing the Private Members' motion before the House. Before I begin, I want to take a moment to express my sincere condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnson. The conditions that Aoife encountered when she arrived at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick should never have been present. Indeed, the conditions that...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.