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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How does Ms Lavin regard that report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Central Bank been in contact with Ms Lavin and Mr. Cullen regarding the Global Restructuring Group Ireland, GRG?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was the reply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do Ms Lavin and Mr. Cullen welcome the Central Bank getting involved in carrying out an investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Let me address a question to Mr. Ó Muilleaneoir. I am a great advocate of the credit unions. The credit union is in every town and village. Prior to the crisis, I was in practice, as I am a chartered accountant by training and if the credit union movement had not looked after the SME sector in the previous ten to 12 years, many small businesses would not have survived, particularly in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would ten credit unions coming together have the financial wherewithal to establish a bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: So Mr. Ó Muilleaneoir believes the credit union movement would, dare I say it, set up a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am asking if there is a model that would allow a number of credit unions to go in and if they would have the financial wherewithal to establish such a public entity with the specific purpose of SME lending.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to participate in the committee's meeting. I have one or two questions to direct to Mr. Woods. Specifically, this is about University Hospital Limerick's accident and emergency department and, more particularly, proceeding to build a 96-bed acute unit on the grounds of the hospital. In 2009, reconfiguration took place. There is context around the need...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that the national capital review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: We want the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick to open in May. That is critical. I have corresponded with the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, and spoken to the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Tony O’Brien. I have also spoken at length to Mr. Woods about the 96 bed acute unit, which is also critical. It is good news that the design phase is under way and that we have lost no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: So it is a priority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: It involves University Hospital Limerick and the mid-west and the dire need for the 96-bed unit as part of the capital plan to be funded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about the emergency department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have since had discussions with the Minister about that and he has given a commitment that if it is ready to open in May, the HSE will look at it. We are at breaking point in Limerick. Whatever numbers we go on, we have the largest number of people on trolleys in any hospital in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: If it is ready by May with staff in place, will the new emergency department be opened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: The project date was deferred from March to May. If the project is ready - I am holding the management of University Hospital Limerick to account on this - if staff are in place, if it has been handed over and if it is in place infrastructurally by May, which is what the people of Limerick were promised, will the HSE support the opening of the new accident and emergency department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the answer "Yes"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dare I say it, that is not quite the answer I was looking for. This is a more straightforward answer. The original date was March and was then moved to May. Recruitment of staff is under way. Mr. Woods has visited the accident and emergency department in University Hospital Limerick and knows how dire it is. It is too small and claustrophobic. The reconfiguration took place in 2009....