Written answers

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Department of Health

Hospital Facilities

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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1920. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 1 June 2021, if the second operating theatre in Merlin Park University Hospital, on which construction is due to be completed by the end of 2021, will also begin to carry out surgical operations by the end of 2021; if not, the timeline for when it will be fully fitted out and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35873/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Merlin Park University Hospital provides elective Medical and Surgical (Orthopaedic and minor surgery) services, renal services including a Haemodialysis unit, two designated rehabilitation units along with a number of specialist outpatient clinics.

Funding has been provided in 2021 for this project which will deliver two Orthopaedic Theatres with ancillary accommodation for the provision of elective procedures. The theatres will be located in the vicinity of the existing main hospital block adjacent to the ground floor of the building. There will be a link corridor from the theatres to the existing hospital block.

Construction work on the development commenced in March 2021 with the project due to be completed by year end 2021. The Theatres currently under construction are expected to be equipped and become operational by the service in January 2022.

This theatre facility will replace the theatre capacity lost and will also provide some additionality as the existing theatre could be used for injection/less complex cases.

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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1921. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 376 of 1 April 2021, the timeline for when the temporary emergency department in Galway University Hospital will be fully fitted out and operational; the details of the handover plan regarding the internal replanned area of the temporary emergency department; if fitting out will be carried out before or after the handover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35874/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Approval has been granted to complete a temporary extension to the Emergency Department to provide additional accommodation, in the first instance related to Covid requirements. The Temporary ED project and associate works will also service as an enabling works project for the proposed permanent ED by helping to free up the site required for the proposed new block.

The accommodation includes segregated waiting areas, segregated treatment areas, isolation rooms, additional resuscitation spaces and additional support accommodation to take account of new requirements to treat Covid-19 patients and improved Infection Control and Prevention requirements for ED. External works in support of this temporary accommodation includes enabling works by way of roads and car-park reconfigurations, utilities and drainage diversions, all to the east of the Main Block of University Hospital Galway.

The Temporary Emergency Department extension building will be single storey, with a rooftop plant room and will be connected to the main hospital block at the existing Emergency Department entrance. Site works have been underway for some time, and it is expected that this project will be completed in Q2 2022.

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