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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: What will need to see is pressure taken off the emergency department and we need that modular building. I am asking the Taoiseach for his intervention on this. He is correct that the second modular building at the hospital was to facilitate the relocation of the outpatient department and provide those ten additional single beds to replace some of the beds lost to Covid reconfiguration....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 2021)

Denis Naughten: 1345. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of a modular emergency department extension at Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway to ensure that there is a separate stream for patients with Covid-19 or other infectious diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42485/21]

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Denis Naughten: Last June I wrote to the predecessor of the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, pointing out that Portiuncula University Hospital, in Ballinasloe, was in a desperate situation because it had lost 10% of its acute hospital bed capacity due to Covid-19 reconfiguration. The hospital took a very proactive approach with regard to it and forwarded two very specific proposals to the HSE. The first...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Denis Naughten: Last June I wrote to the Minister's predecessor pointing out that Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe was in a desperate situation because it has lost 10% of its acute hospital capacity due to Covid-19 configuration. The hospital was very proactive. It put forward two very specific proposals. The first was to develop two separate modular buildings, one for an accident and...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...morning, I happened to be on Galway Bay FM discussing another health issue. The HSE is actively promoting the minor injury unit at Roscommon County Hospital, encouraging people to go to it to avoid going to emergency departments. Over the past number of years, people from as far away as Eyrecourt would be better travelling to Roscommon hospital where they would be treated quicker for...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...road asking people where they were going. I ask the Aire Stáit to come back to me on this next matter as well. Last June, I wrote to the Minister for Health, the chief executive of the HSE and the Secretary General of the Department of Health pointing out the desperate situation in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, where 10% of the beds were lost because of Covid-19. The hospital...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Funding (22 Oct 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Dolan for placing this matter today. Before I go to the script it gives me great pleasure to discuss Portiuncula Hospital given that my youngest child was born there. It is 24 miles down the road from me so I know it intimately. Many of my constituents work in Portiuncula Hospital and it is embedded in the fabric not just of Ballinasloe but in the wider spread of the area....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...medical outcomes. We need proactive measures aimed at treating patients as efficiently as possible and we can do this by taking some simple actions. As an example, I refer to the CT scanner at Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe, which has been out of action for 144 hours this month alone. Despite this being the tenth time that it has broken down in the past 18 operational...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (17 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the overcrowding in the emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53368/19]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...of the health system. They are supposed to deal with routine surgeries, day surgeries, day cases and inpatients that had traditionally gone to model 3 and model 4 hospitals. They do not deal with urgent or emergency cases but the conditions treated can become chronic conditions if left over time. The work includes colonoscopy and urology appointments, computed tomography scans, X-rays,...

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

Denis Naughten: I have three suggestions for the Minister in respect of the issues at accident and emergency departments across the country. First, we need to better utilise our injury units, which can provide for quick diagnosis and discharge back into the community and ensure that people do not have long stays for tests that can be provided there. Currently, people go directly to accident and emergency...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Terry Leyden: ...to find out what is going on. I call on the Minister for Health to come before the House to report on the overall situation in medicine and the health service.There is a crisis in the accident and emergency departments. We know that. Trolleys are being counted. We know that. I had reason to go to University College Hospital Galway, UCHG, over four days, from 26 to 31 January, as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (3 Nov 2015)

Denis Naughten: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the recruitment of paediatric nurses for the emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38090/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: 169. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the planned reduction in hours of the emergency department at Portlaoise hospital in County Laois, if he will confirm the status of a Department submission to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to reduce the opening hours of four other emergency departments, namely, Portiuncula and Ballinasloe in County Galway, Clonmel in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Denis Naughten: ...has been cut and more funding needs to put into this. For example, Bus Éireann announced it was a case of "use it or lose it" for route 21, the Westport-Athlone service. That same week, the Department of Social Protection, which has its own budget, announced it was closing its community welfare clinic in Ballinlough, County Roscommon, and people have to access that service in...

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: ...weeks, rather than paying €1,200 a day to keep him or her in an acute hospital bed, resulting in congestion in hospital wards, delays in and the postponement of elective surgery, congestion in accident and emergency departments and ambulances being parked outside accident and emergency departments rather than being available to respond to meet community needs. I hope the Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: In her response, I had hoped the Minister of State could address some of the questions I have raised. She made the point that very few patients come directly to the psychiatric services via an emergency department. I can tell her that is not the case in Portiuncula Hospital where a substantial number of people have come through the emergency department, as the Minister of State, Deputy...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2013)

Denis Naughten: ...the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health who was happy to put it in writing, yet that promise was ignored very soon after the election. Another commitment was given in respect of Portiuncula hospital, also in writing, and since it was given the accident and emergency department in the hospital has lost the capacity to treat stroke patients. Some pre-election promises...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Denis Naughten: The Minister is correct in saying the number of trolleys has gone down, for which he is to be commended. He might, however, explain why up to 12 months ago there was no problem with trolleys in Portiuncula Hospital, while there has been a significant problem for the past 12 months because of the closure of the accident and emergency department at Roscommon. On the accusation that I am...

Hospital Services (29 Sep 2011)

Denis Naughten: Over the last month, Mullingar, Portiuncula and Galway University hospitals have been taken off call for ambulances due to the chaotic situation in accident and emergency departments. At the same time, Roscommon accident and emergency operates as a minor injury clinic for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. I do not care what name is over the door of the emergency department, what goes on...