Oireachtas committee to discuss petition calling for re-opening of ED at Ennis Hospital
THE OIREACHTAS Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen will meet this Thursday to discuss a petition seeking to ‘Re-open Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s Emergency Departments’ and other petitions.
The meeting, at Leinster House, will hear from the petitioner and campaigner, Noeleen Moran and campaigners Marie McMahon and Hilary Tonge.
Commenting ahead of the meeting, Deputy Martin Browne, Committee Cathaoirleach, said: “This petition is seeking the reopening of the emergency departments in Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s hospitals in Clare, Tipperary and Limerick respectively. The closure of these three units and downgrading of the hospitals has left some 400,000 people in the three counties reliant on the overcrowded and under pressure emergency department in University Hospital Limerick."
Several other petitions will be discussed during the meeting, which begins at 1.30pm and which will be live-streamed here.
The Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen is a standing Committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas and has 11 Members, seven from the Dáil and four from the Seanad.