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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: It is important to remind the Deputy that we also have the minor injuries unit on the north side.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: It is not open out of hours.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: No. The minor injuries unit covers people from both the north side and the south side. I just want to be clear that not everything is on the south side. Second, I have checked for myself and SouthDoc saw more than 220,000 people last year.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: Only in Blackpool.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: Deputy Gould raised the issue of SouthDoc not doing its job. SouthDoc saw 220,000 patients last year. It has 19 vehicles available to call out to people as well, so there is a whole rota of people available to call out to patients. If a patient is deemed to be so unwell that he or she cannot travel to a centre then SouthDoc will arrange a visit. Patients are seen, on average, within four...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: On the north side.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am sorry but we are way over time.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: -----response. I fully understand where Deputy Gould is coming from. The concerns he outlined have been raised with me as well. We need to make sure that the service continues, as I am sure it will.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: Good morning. I want to start by laying out the background to the issue relating to SouthDoc in Blackpool. As my constituency colleague, the Minister of State must be well aware of this matter. In 2020, the close of SouthDoc in Blackpool was announced on foot of the Covid-19 crisis. At the time, I raised concerns. Those concerns proved to be well founded when SouthDoc clearly stated that...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Burke, ina ról nua.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Colm Burke: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank Deputy Gould for raising this issue and for his consistent engagement in respect of the SouthDoc treatment centre. I am dealing with this matter on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly. The Minister fully understands that the Deputy is acting out of a genuine concern, his own and that of his constituents, regarding the ongoing...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: I do not want to be disrespectful, but if the Minister for Health does not understand what is happening in the HSE in the context of SouthDoc in Blackpool, that is shocking. Some €7 million was paid to SouthDoc to provide an out-of-hours service, which it is not doing. If the Minister of State looks at my Facebook page, he will see the number of constituents by whom I have...