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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (2 May 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Health Services Staff
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a severe shortage of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19873/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency measures the Government will put in place to ensure developmental checks resume in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, given the severe lack of child developmental checks in the area. [19450/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: This question is on the severe shortage of public health nurses in the Dublin Mid-West area. This is not an isolated situation and it is the same across a lot of community healthcare organisations, CHOs. I would like to get the Minister's thoughts on the shortages, especially in Dublin Mid-West.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 and 22 together. I thank Deputies Kenny and Collins for raising this matter. On the back of their questions I engaged with my officials and the HSE on this. As per the questions, they are accepting there are shortages affecting the child development checks in Dublin south and Dublin west. The public health nurse service is experiencing significant...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: This has been going for a number of years. There are parts of Lucan, north Clondalkin and Newcastle where parents of newborns and infants have had no checks on their children. That can only be a bad thing. I was looking at the trend in the last five years when it comes to public health nurses. There has been a steady decline in retention of them. That is very worrying because, as the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)
Joan Collins: It sounds a bit like "Groundhog Day". I have been raising this issue for the last year. I raised it in last March and April in relation to the Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road health centres. We were told that two teams were to be put into Armagh Road, or rather that there were 4.6 public health nurses between Armagh Road and Curlew Road and they were going to be put into the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: The tragedy of all of this is that most of those beds have come far too late. There is no reason those beds should not have been funded years ago. Everybody knows that when the decision was made to close Ennis and Nenagh emergency departments, additional capacity was needed in Limerick. It was promised that it would be a centre of excellence. It has not been able to perform as that centre...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I agree. The reconfiguration was not done right at all and the measures that the Government is putting in place should have been put in place before the reconfiguration happened. That is my view. What I can stand over is what the Government is doing. The Government has added a level of capacity into Limerick that has never been done before and there is no hospital in the country that has...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister will get a chance to come back in.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I am all for reform in that hospital and every other hospital, but I was one of those members, including Deputy Crowe, who attended the briefing for the Oireachtas health committee. We met with the head of the HSE and clinicians, hospital management and healthcare trade unions. All of them, to a man and a woman, told us that the big problem in Limerick is capacity. We need reforms but...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Let us bear in mind that when I say we have added more staff, we have increased the staff by more than 40%. This is not a few more staff. An additional 433 nurses, for example, are working in the hospital. It has been a vast increase. In terms of a model 3 hospital, we should never rule anything out. The chief executive and I have asked all six of the regional executive officers, now...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Hospital Services
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: 4. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to achieve a maximum of four months waiting time for paediatric spinal surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19774/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: This question relates to spinal surgeries for children with scoliosis and spina bifida. The Minister will be aware that over the past number of months there has been a number of high-profile reports of children and their families having to take the media. Some of those children have been waiting since as far back as 2020 for their spinal surgeries to be done. The families are pleading for...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question. I acknowledge that the waiting lists for these children are simply too long and that while more capacity is being is being added and more surgeries are being done, there are a number of children for whom the wait is simply unacceptable. In 2022, I asked Children's Health Ireland to come up with a comprehensive plan that would mean that of the children...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Despite all of the talk that comes from Government and the Minister regarding record investment, record staff, record capacity and all of that, we have children who are waiting. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of Liam Dennehy, who has been left waiting more than five months for his surgery. Unfortunately, his spinal curvature is going in the wrong direction. I also raised,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I can. We had a useful session yesterday. I might organise a briefing for members of the health committee who are interested as well. There is a lot of important work under way. As to the treatment abroad scheme or whatever it might be, we have been very clear with CHI in saying if it can find what our surgeons say is clinically appropriate care for the children, be that in Boston's...