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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: I am careful about using that word. I am not happy about the services provided to the group of children with spina bifida, hydrocephalus and complex spinal services. In every way, I am not happy about it. I want to see where it needs to improve. Could I ask-----

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 use it. An audit into spinal services and urology is proceeding at the moment, precisely because of my concerns about how those lists have been managed and continue to be managed. I am expecting that audit in the end of November or December. I cannot say further than that. I do not want to step across the work that the auditor is doing. I may very well use that word, but I would...

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 absolutely respect 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: Okay. I might ask Ms Louise McGirr to come in on the imbalance and the regional issue the Deputy spoke about. There are quite a lot of updates in relation to Mullingar and Tullamore. We will do that first, if that is okay?

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 come in on that. What we have been doing - we started this in September - is bringing all the hospitals together to show what each is doing. I will meet them all again in January to see where their progress is and again in April. Some of the excellent examples of good work need to be rolled out to all. Let me give the Deputy an example in relation to Mullingar. Of Mullingar's...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: May I give the Deputy an update specifically on Mullingar in relation to the changes recently implemented to try to-----

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay. I am sorry.

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 cannot give the Deputy anything further than 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: Sure.

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 Mr. Gloster to come in on the last question and then Mr. Tierney and Ms Conroy in relation to diagnostics and oncology.

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 Ms Conroy to come in. One of the developments in Galway is that the acute oncology service is now operating 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday. Ms Conroy might like to come in on some of the 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 come to this in the round in the first instance. The third-party insourcing we are referring to is a very small part of the overall service. It equates to two to three days' spend in the whole system. It is a very small part. The problem with third-party insourcing is that it was going in the wrong direction. The system was becoming dependent on it. At the same time, it was...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Barbara Keogh Dunne is fantastic. What has happened at Tallaght is an example to every other hospital in this country. When we were here in June and July, Tallaght's trolley numbers were not good. They were a persistent difficulty. The waiting time averaged about 13 hours. It is now down to about eight hours. It is appropriate to be in the emergency department for a certain period 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: This is why it is so frustrating to see other hospitals not being managed in this way. The pressure on staff in emergency departments is created because the rest of the hospital is not supporting them by making sure people are discharged at the weekend and that those other units are just as responsible for patient flow as everybody else. Of course, that pressure lands on top of 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 had specific questions on NTPF waiting times. Ms Conroy might be able to be offer assistance with those.

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 will be aware that I set the policy direction and the HSE CEO is responsible for the management and accountability. It is fair to say that Mr. Gloster and I have had a shared focus on increasing productivity, in particular emergency care presentations and the management of those. Part of it is that the symposium, conference or whatever we call it on 11 September had an important...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can the Senator be more specific? What does she mean?

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 fair to say that we bring the patient voice into everything that we can, whether the development of different clinical programmes. I might ask Ms Rachel Kenna to speak on that. Regarding hospital delivery, it is really up to us to make sure that we are consistently meeting the standards that we have set. It is not a choice. If people are on the public only consultant contract, they...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Two weeks ago on 17 September, Mr. Gloster hosted an absolutely packed national patient forum here. It was the day the Dáil came back, so I could not be there. We have incorporated the patient voice into the design of the HSE health app, for example. Every region now has a patient engagement lead. I still think it is our responsibility to make sure that we are delivering services anyway.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Senator. In relation to the beds in Limerick hospital, which have been identified as the most acute need, we have 138 beds opening this year. Regarding the next 96 being opened, I will ask Ms Broderick to confirm but I think at the end of this week patients are moving in.