You can’t just do one thing at a time and unfortunately, like building a house or property, it affects what is there already.
Thats the view of Deputy John McGuinness who was reacting to Professor Garry Courtneys comments yesterday on funding for the hospital as really inadequate.
Deputh McGuinness told The KCLR Daily that Oireachtas members met with hospital management and consultants in 2025 about plans and to lobby the minister for funding which resulted in a €6.5 million injection of funds to the local health system..
The Leas Cheann Comhairle says that hes delighted with the funding. “I’m delighted with the six million. Basically what the funding achieves is it moves the projects along, it brings them to the next stage, the planning stage and the funding stage.”
“If they were not in the capital programme, then we would be in real trouble because we would have to go back and fight from scratch again.”
The Carlow/Kilkenny TD says that its disappointing that 24 beds will be lost to enhanced beds capacity but stressed that its a sacrifice worth making: “I think it is in this case, because we’re looking towards the provision of a further 80 beds.”
“You have to move around the pieces on the board to achieve what’s best out in the hospital for more beds and for more specialties and all of that.”
“You can’t just do one thing at a time and unfortunately, like building a house or like building anything, it affects what is there already, and, you know when you’re planning these things, somebody else has to go and plan to get the staff.”
“So it isn’t easy for those on the ground out in the hospital, it isn’t easy for the patients I understand that, but the worst thing could happen would be what happened many years ago, closure of beds, closure of hospitals and that’s not happening now.”
“There’s an expansion going on, but that expansion is badly needed.“
You can listen back to the Deputy’s intervoiew on The KCLR Daily below:
