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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: That is our intention, Deputy, but at the same time I need to make sure that we are meeting patient need and we are driving very hard on productivity in the meantime. That is our intention and I can understand that this is an important change that creates some difficulty, potentially, for some hospital managers and that there may be local resistance to some of that but at the same time we...

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 do not want it to change, I just recognise that I do not know for certain but that is where we are driving to. We will consider that, as I always said we would, but that is where we are going.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Obviously I have the same information as-----

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 problem. It is one of the most important issues. Obviously I have the same information as Mr Tierney. I really want to be very clear about the balance in this. We together are paying BAM to deliver this hospital and we together, the Irish State, has a contract with BAM, which it has to deliver. The Deputy is absolutely right to identify all of those changing dates. It is really...

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 have read the HIQA report and the 1,200 pages that go behind it, which I think is very important. I hope that the committee will take the opportunity of a briefing from HIQA on some of the different demographic issues that have been identified in the analysis and some of the different pressures that can be seen or not. The HIQA does not identify any location for a model 3 hospital. 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: The report also says that of the three options, HIQA is very clearly not leaning in that direction. It says that the priority is inpatient beds and that option C would take the longest to deliver and would not meet patient needs. My perspective is that a 1,200 page report was published on Tuesday and it is very important that we reflect on the intersection between-----

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 am trying to answer it.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My perspective is that I look at all of those different options and I want to reflect on them and see where we need to go with it, but I am very open to all three options. However, my priority from a patient safety perspective, is unquestionably, delivering acute inpatient beds in Limerick.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is exactly right. The Mallow facility will open this year with the addition of 24 beds. The Deputy is right to identify the need for the Blarney beds as well. Particularly across the south west, there has been a difficulty in moving patients.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is correct. What I am saying is that in an effort to turn the tide on that, we have increased the fees available by 47%. However, it is still the case that we do not have people choosing to do that.

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 might ask Rachel, who is in charge of workforce planning, to come in on that.

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 training more and we are trying to increase the number of clinical placements because the number of university places has been increased. Rachel and I have been working with CORU, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and the Medical Council to try to improve registration times. I have a couple of updates. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland confirmed to us that more...

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 ask Bernard to address that.

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 seeing some good progress in how this is being done. As long as that incentive exists, it is a huge----

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 only a small proportion. The third-party insourcing represents a very small proportion of the overall activity. It is just that it is significant that we arrest it before it becomes too dominant.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On the value of focusing on the productivity model, the Mater, for example, is a hospital with 80% of the consultants on the POCC. It is one of the first hospitals that has put in serious Saturday rostering. There have been 293 additional procedures since they started opening an additional theatre on Saturday. Now they are looking at how they can open additional theatres to support model 3...

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 be very clear about the elective hospitals. We are looking for planning next year for the Cork elective hospital. We are proceeding with the elective hospitals and the surgical hubs. One of the things we need to look at is the balance between additional surgical hub capacity and where we can reconfigure even further without potentially going for another elective. There may be...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is a commitment to four new elective hospitals. It is just that I am aware that there might be more efficient ways of doing it in Dublin that we should also consider. I think there is capacity in Dublin that we might not have previously considered and we might see how that intersects with an additional elective hospital. I will ask Mr. Tierney to confirm the funding.

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 met Gillian and Stephen Sherratt and am very grateful to them for that meeting, which was a very important one. There is no agreement regarding the nature of a particular type of inquiry. We are exploring all of the different options. The Senator will recall that different forms of inquiry can take very different lengths of time. Some of them preclude the information used in 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 and I have discussed this in the Seanad and he has been an ongoing advocate, particularly on the urological side. I am not happy. There has been a gap, particularly in Temple Street, regarding the urological waiting lists. I might ask Ms Conroy to come in, as she has policy responsibility.