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- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I want to be accurate. It is not public anxiety or my anxiety. It is contravention of international policy, Government policy and HSE policy. It is not anxiety.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: This might be for Ms O’Donovan or it might be for somebody else. Where there is a set of decision-making around estates and capital funding and a set of decision-making around care plans and clinical governance, it seems to be obvious from the minutes that clinical professionals are articulating their unhappiness with decisions and saying that it is not in line with care plans and...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Will the residents moved outside east Cork be given the opportunity to move back to Midleton when the property plan there is finished?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: If Ms O’Donovan does not my mind me saying, that does not sound like an absolute right. Let us say a person was moved out of Owenacurra last year and now that person is in north Cork. We will come to the timing of the new building, which, very ambitiously, will be in maybe 2026 or 2027. That person is now in north Cork for at least four to five years. Let us say there is somebody...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: In was mentioned in the opening statement that the CEO, Mr. Bernard Gloster, visited Owenacurra in July. He met with Councillor Liam Quade and me on this issue as well. I welcome that. I cannot do that on behalf of the residents and families but I know they were very glad he made the commitment to visit. I am sure they looked forward to meeting him. A number of residents were not...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, was it his office that extended an invitation to the relevant people in Owenacurra?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: So it was Ms O’Donovan’s office that was inviting families.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Were all families invited?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Was it to deal with managers, not families?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. How was it decided who was happy to meet with him?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: So it was not-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so there was no formal invitation to families.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Did Mr. Gloster visit St. Stephen's Hospital while he was in the area?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I have a couple more questions, if that is all right with the Cathaoirleach. I have submitted some parliamentary questions on the new proposals for the ten-bed service in Midleton. I have been told repeatedly that building is expected to commence in quarter 1 of 2024 and that the construction will be completed in quarter 1 of 2025. There is no capital funding assigned to those projects....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: There is a design team appointed. Is there a site?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: There is no funding though.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Can we get a timeline on when that update can be expected? How long does it take for that kind of capital funding process?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the timeline on them?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Does it take four months or maybe six months to decide the priorities for the next year?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so by Christmas it might be decided that Owenacurra is the one to move forward with. Then, is the design team appointed and the tender process begun?