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- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: Once we finish, we will recommend that we get the HIQA reports or any other report that exists. The reports were requested previously and our committee will ask for them again. However, I ask Deputy McGrath to withdraw the accusation that someone was covering up for someone else.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I appreciate that the Deputy has been dealing with people in Carrick-on-Suir-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: -----and I have been speaking to them as well.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: The Deputy is making an accusation based on his opinion, and we have spoken about opinions.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I ask that the statement be withdrawn. We can then continue with our meeting.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I direct the Deputy to withdraw that utterance. If he does not, I must direct him to withdraw from the meeting.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I ask the Deputy to withdraw from the meeting.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: We have heard about Clogheen again and Senator Murphy brought it up. As I said, Clogheen is 45 km from Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary town is 61 km from Carrick-on-Suir. We are not like the big urban areas or cities where a person can jump on a bus or Luas tram. That creates problems. As Senator Craughwell said, we all have people who have received palliative care and it takes a few...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: As mentioned earlier, in all the big hospitals we have trolleys lined up on both sides of corridors. The corridor in St. Brigid's is like a runway in an airport when compared with the environment in which people are asked to work in hospitals. If that is not a problem, it is a case of what is good for the goose is good for the gander. There are no trolleys in corridors in St. Brigid's and...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: What has come across clearly today is that all the decisions on closing St. Brigid's have been based on opinions. As Chair of the committee, I propose the HSE comes back with consultant or engineer reports on the corridors and wards so that we can see where the decisions were made, because we have not received them so far. Everything is just opinion. As I said earlier, I could have an...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: The problem seems to be there are no reports. We as a committee and as individual members have looked for reports and we are not getting them. We are asking to be shown even one report showing decisions were made, not opinions. Services such as these cannot be taken out of an area based on opinion alone. There must have been decisions made by the HSE, a working group, or whatever it is...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I do not doubt that for one minute, but I also do not doubt that the multitude of people who used St. Brigid's down through the years never raised an issue of privacy, such as five beds on a ward needing to be cut to four beds. They were happy. Their families and the community were happy that a top-class service was being provided by top-class staff. That has been stripped away from them...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: Private nursing home beds seem to be the solution to all of this. This community raised money for doors, windows and anything else that was needed in Carrick-on-Suir. The money was raised by them for that hospital-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: -----and now it is being completely ripped away from them.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes, I have no problem with that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: I thank Ms Killeen White, Ms McDaid, Mr. Ruane and Ms Walsh for coming before the committee. It has been beneficial. We have got a certain amount of information, but I am still not convinced that we know everything of the decisions that went on behind the scenes to close this hospital. It is to be hoped we will get the consultant's report or, as Deputy Cahill requested, even the minutes of...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: We had three petitions for consideration today. Petition No. 21 of 2021 is entitled Taking in Charge and was submitted by Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to a request to the local authority to take in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross, County Tipperary. This petition has been before the committee a few times. The petitioner presented to...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: It is noted for now. If something is not moved, we need to bring officials from Irish Water in to answer why suddenly another problem has come in at this stage. Petition No. 48 of 2022 is entitled Save St. Brigid’s Hospital and was submitted by Mr. David Dunne. This petition relates to a request to reopen St. Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir. The secretariat wrote to...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes. We asked that they come back to us with clarification. Is that agreed? Agreed. Petition No. 52 of 2022, entitled Lil Red's Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign, was submitted by Mr. Joseph Hughes. This petition requests that the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and the HSE’s national sepsis programme develop a sepsis awareness campaign for television and radio explaining...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)
Martin Browne: That is what they said.