Health Services
Seanad Éireann — 2026-06-18
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Martin Conway (IND), Administrative Panel

I acknowledge the sincerity of the Minister of State's reply. Yet another timeline has been set down. I will hold the Department and the Minister to account on it. We are allowed to table Commencement matters every six months. I sincerely hope that, next December, I am not tabling a similar motion and that we will have the unit up and running.
I acknowledge what the Minister of State has said, that there has been enormous progress in healthcare in the mid-west, an area in which there was underinvestment for decades. That is welcome. When services are not needed in Limerick and when they can be provided in places like Ennis, to everyone's benefit, everything should be done to make sure that happens because it reduces pressure on a hospital that is already way over capacity. I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I am sure the 150-odd people availing of dialysis several times a week will take some solace from the reference to the fourth quarter. I hope it is October as opposed to December.

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Sitting date: 2026-06-18