Hospital Facilities
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-22
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

I thank the Deputies for that. This is the issue with Beaumont. It is an exceptional centre of clinical excellence. It is the place you want to be for neurology and it is a place that provides extraordinary renal treatment, but we have to look at the hospital as a whole.
While it does extraordinary surgery and neurosurgery, when somebody like Mrs. Anderson's husband presents, he needs the care, the throughput and acute medical care as well. That requires a concentration of the emergency department on the patient experience time. That requires a concentration on diagnostics and using all the assets for patient safety as much as for neurosurgery. There is no question that Beaumont is the place I would want to be for any of those issues but as Minister for Health, I am as responsible for every patient that comes through and their experience in the emergency department and how long they are there as the investment in the extraordinary clinical research happening for the future.
I am sorry, I only have ten seconds, but in respect of the Northside Home Care Services, I want to acknowledge people's presence here today. I have been informed of the extraordinary work done there. I have to o clarify for the House, it is not a public body as such. Terms and conditions are set by the organisation itself and it is a matter between the employer and employee. I can come back to that but it is not as straight forward as the HSE or a section 39 organisation issue that we might discuss.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-22