Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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3141. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being adopted to address overcrowding and lengthy waiting times at the emergency department in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40448/21]

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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3145. To ask the Minister for Health if the South Southwest Hospital Group will provide additional resources to University Hospital Kerry as a matter of urgency to tackle delays and overcrowding in the emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40452/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 3141 and 3145 together.

As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.

Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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3142. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance from a hospital (details supplied) has been availed of in the past three months at times of extreme overcrowding and lengthy waiting times at the emergency department in University Hospital Kerry; the arrangements that are in place to alleviate such pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40449/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.