Hospital Overcrowding
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-03
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

I thank Deputy Griffin. He was not right but I must take advice from the Acting Chairman on this. The Deputy's question is a fundamentally different one. The question posed is about UHL. The Deputy is asking a completely different question. It is a very valid one about UHK and I would like to answer but it is not supplemental to this question. I can send him a detailed note. He and I have obviously discussed this. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and I are in regular communication on this. As the Deputy will be aware, the national director of acute operations has been in UHK and there is a very comprehensive review going on. For example, a figure I think I shared with the Deputy recently was there has been a 33% increase in the consultants added to UHK. At the same time as we have had a one third increase in our doctors, fewer patients are being seen. We need to understand what is going on there, whereby we can substantially increase our medical workforce-----

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Sitting date: 2021-12-03