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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The Minister was just talking about capacity issues. One of the big things in terms of capacity is to make sure we have the workforce that can build the different projects that we need, particularly when it comes to accommodation needs. That is why I would like the Minister to outline what progress is being made at the moment with regard to the current challenges in the apprenticeship...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thanks very much, Chair. I thank the Minister for his presentation. On Sláintecare and the reconfiguration of the HSE and the RHAs, one of the key principles of that proposal is that there would be objective resource allocation to each RHA. I am just checking. I take it the Minister supports the principle that we need to end the postcode lottery and ensure all resources are allocated...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister agree with the principle?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Taking that principle of fair allocation of resources, when we look down through the existing hospital groups - and leaving aside CHI there are six hospital groups - we see that most of the hospital groups have two level four hospitals. Most of them have three level three hospitals. In fact, one hospital group has four level three hospitals. UHL is a complete outlier because it only...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but this point has been resisted for the last few years. It was blindingly obvious that there was an error made in the original reconfiguration of hospitals if there is one hospital group that does not have a level three hospital and therefore no ED. This has been resisted. Many of us have been raising this for quite some time and the Minister has resisted that and people are paying...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, if the Minister does not mind me interrupting I am talking about the current situation, the kind of level of resources that have been available to UHL up to now and the resistance at official and ministerial level to addressing that shortcoming of resources.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can I just-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister likes quoting figures and I saw the report that was published recently by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service. It is a good thing to measure activity because we have to ensure we get productivity. As the Minister said, that chart shows that UHL has gotten more resources cash-wise and staff-wise than any other hospital. I am sure the Minister will agree that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am not asking the Minister to do that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Would the Minister accept that UHL, in terms of the kind of operating level and resources it has at its disposal, still is not even close to any of the other hospital groups?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Those figures I am quoting do not lie.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair. One of the things I have been trying to get my hands on for quite some time is details of the catchment population for each hospital group. I am sure the Minister has that available to him as does the HSE but it has not been made available publicly. Will the Minister give a commitment to provide those figures to us because again that is another matrix that allows...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, we know the history of this but it is the rationale for that, that clearly did not exist when the reconfiguration happened and it does not exist now. Why has there been resistance to accepting that?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, that is the point we have been making for some time. And it is only very lately-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: -----that the Minister has conceded that point.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I just wonder why the Minister is changing his mind about having a look at this question of a model 3 hospital given that he has resisted it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has been quoting clinical advice for years.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister disagree with any of the figures I provided today?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has been in government for four years.