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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: People are refusing to go there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have no problem with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I agree. And there should not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I agree, and why is that allowed to happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Reid is managing the hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Minister should wait a second. He has just outlined something I completely agree with. In fact, ideologically, the Minister has moved in my direction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Exactly. I have always publicly supported the Minister for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: One has to laugh at some stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Minister should listen to what he has just said. Why is this happening? He is in charge of the HSE. The HSE is around us here but this practice is happening. Why is it allowed to happen? The Minister quotes statistics, like the volume of beds. No one wants to do a comparison with Beaumont. No one wants to do a comparison with diagnostics, beds, resources, human resources. Why is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I ask that Mr. Woods please do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I could not agree more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is not the issue, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: The issue is the emergency department, lads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: People are getting follow-up appointments for operations that have not even happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Why did the Minister say "No" initially and then change his mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Why did the HSE write-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: This is not just interval cancer audit but full audit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I listened to Mr. Reid's comments on overcrowding in accident and emergency departments and I accept his point on changes that have to be made in other areas to ensure these problems are solved. I am with him 100% on that but the problem of resources is staring us in the face. If I see changes in resources, particularly the area I pointed out, I will go with the Minister immediately. If I...