Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly TD has said that the Minister for Health or the HSE must intervene to avert next Tuesday’s ambulance strike. “I understand that some 500 members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association (NASRA) are set to strike on Tuesday of this week. This means that basically a quarter of […]

The latest waiting figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund reveal that 516,162 people were waiting for an outpatient appointment in December 2018, with more than 150,000 people waiting over a year to see a doctor. Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly commented, “These figures reveal that 152,940 people spent all of 2018 on […]

New information provided to Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Deputy Stephen Donnelly, has shown that between January and October 2018, 30,922 people experienced waits of more than 24 hours in an Emergency Department prior to hospital admission. 10,855 of those waiting were aged over 75. Commenting on the figures Deputy Donnelly said, “This year has seen […]

Fianna Fáil Health spokesperson Stephen Donnelly says it very clear from the new HSE Service Plan that the difficult conditions being experienced in our hospitals will persist in 2019 “It is simply extraordinary that on Budget Day the Minister for Health could say that we are in the era of Sláintecare, yet two months later […]

Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has called on the Government to explain the extraordinary escalation in the costs associated with building the new Children’s Hospital. Deputy Donnelly was commenting following reports that the cost of the project may now reach €1.4 billion. Deputy Donnelly explained, “It’s just over eighteen months since the Minister told […]

New figures released to Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly reveal  HSE spending on agency nurses increased by almost 20% in the first nine months of the year compared to the same timeframe in 2017. Responding to the figures, Deputy Donnelly said, “Expenditure on agency nurses amounted to more than €56 million up to the […]