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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Reid and the team and wish Ms O'Connor and Mr. Woods well in their new positions. I will begin with capital projects. I have engaged with the Tánaiste on the emergency department and maternity and paediatric unit in Galway and asked him to engage with the officials, which I believe he has. This is a long-running project and I appreciate it is complex. We have had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Will the planning application for the emergency department and maternity and paediatric unit be lodged this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: It is a challenge. It is very frustrating for all involved. I acknowledge that there will be a temporary emergency department but there is huge frustration about the delay on this project. All I can do is keep raising it, as I have been doing, within the committee, with the Minister, with the Secretary General and at a political level with the Tánaiste. I understand he has discussed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I appreciate that but I thought this had been settled and that everything was progressing. Is Mr. Reid saying there is still division within the Saolta group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: When did this clear alignment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: One in every two of us will get cancer during his or her lifetime. Cancer survival rates are thankfully increasing. People are living longer so the likelihood of getting cancer has also increased. The survival rates for breast, colorectal and lung cancer patients are worse in the west than in the rest of the country, particularly for breast cancer. In HSE west, the cumulative five-year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Okay. I would appreciate a note on that. In last year's winter plan, there were no acute beds identified for UHG, which we are told was due to a lack of physical space. Is that likely to be repeated this coming winter? Are there any short to medium-term plans for acute beds? Is the elective hospital in Merlin Park still planned to be a day-only facility, or is there a cast-iron...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: What sort of timescale does "designed in from the beginning" entail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: That would be the first phase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: What then is the timescale for inpatient beds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Will the physical infrastructure be there to facilitate the beds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Okay. I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Deputy Cathal Crowe referred to the issues with Shannondoc. There are similar issues with Westdoc in Galway and the expansion of GP services to my own village of Moycullen as well as to Rosscahill and Oughterard. I have heard, although I have not had it substantiated, that there may be a reluctance among Galway city GPs to carry out that expansion. They feel they have enough to do in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: There is a growing population on the outskirts of Galway city and we have lost a GP from Oughterard. There were two before but now there is only one. There is an ongoing challenge in terms of the existing capacity and the lack of availability of outside assistance under Westdoc. I am not sure who it was who said at a previous meeting that there are particular challenges in Galway and the west.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I have contacted Westdoc and am waiting for a comprehensive update.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Going back to the issue with emergency departments, will Mr. Reid indicate whether the HSE is committing to a hands-on approach to ensure what has been promised will be delivered? There are three major projects set out under Project Ireland 2040 relating to the Saolta University Health Care Group, including one at University Hospital Galway. Is Mr. Reid committing to taking a hands-on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Is Mr. Reid confident that everybody is singing from the one hymn sheet on the delivery of the emergency, maternity and paediatrics services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: This issue was touched on earlier but I want to put on record my support for the concerns expressed by medical scientists, a number of whom have contacted me. They say that the action has been taken following a ballot last November in which 98% voted in favour of taking action, that up to 20% of approved medical scientist posts are unfilled in public hospitals, that medical scientists carry...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuairimí an Aosa Óg: Plé (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: Cuirim fáilte roimh na daltaí ó trasna na tíre, go mór mór daltaí Choláiste na bPiarsach ó Ros Muc i gConamara. Bhí mé ag éisteacht ó m'oifig leis an méid a bhí le rá acu go léir. Tá tuairimí an-suimiúil curtha in iúl acu. Tá sé ráite ag an Teachta Connolly go mbeidh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. Menton for his opening statement and I welcome the witnesses. I acknowledge the unambiguous clarity about church involvement. It is clear from Mr. Menton's statement that he believes there is no religious involvement in the running of St. Vincent's now and there has not been for some time. He stated that after 175 years of ownership by the Religious Sisters of Charity, the...