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Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: ...the IMO and INMO, 75 of whom are in Limerick Regional Hospital. According to the HSE's TrolleyGAR figures, there are 39% more people on trolleys today than on this day last year. We do not have a flu epidemic and are not yet in midwinter. As Deputy Kelly said, the mid-west is under-resourced by 20% compared to catchment areas of a similar nature. This is a €40 million...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Harty: ...regions ranges from €86 million to €118 million. The Minister of State has spoken about the causes of these overruns. It is a demand-led service and there is an unpredictability about various flu epidemics, storms and snowstorms etc. I put it to the Minister of State that there is a predictability to health. For instance, 3,500 people will fall and break a hip every year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: ...review may only be keeping track of the increase in population. It many not actually be a net increase in the number of beds per person. Perhaps the witnesses might comment on that. Ever year, flu season arrives and winter initiatives come in. As a result of that, elective admissions are quite often cancelled between the months of November and March. How can the health service keep...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Nov 2017)

Michael Harty: 350. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether services at University Hospital Limerick can survive a winter flu epidemic in view of the chronic state of the emergency department, the cancellation of elective procedures, the CPE threat and the unacceptable hospital work overload; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50028/17]