{"id":5330,"date":"2024-11-24T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2024-11-24T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T16:39:25","slug":"tallaght-hospital-forced-into-cutbacks-by-miserly-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/tallaght-hospital-forced-into-cutbacks-by-miserly-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallaght hospital forced into cutbacks by miserly government"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has accused this government of penny pinching in a time of huge budget surplus and effectively forcing the voluntary hospitals to work with one hand tied behind their back. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe\u2019s comments came as voluntary hospitals such as Tallaght University Hospital, St James\u2019s, and the Mater have warned that new spending restrictions imposed by the HSE mean they may be forced to choose between paying staff, suppliers or the Revenue Commissioners.<br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis government have told voluntary hospitals like Tallaght University Hospital, St James\u2019s, and the Mater that there are new spending limits for November and December. What this means is that their funding has been stopped for the last two months of the year. <br \/><br \/>\u201cTo make things worse, these new limits were set based on 2023 figures on costs, workforce and demand for services. They\u2019re completely out of date and represent nothing more than miserly penny pinching in a time when the government are bragging about huge budget surpluses. First we had the recruitment embargo and now we have cutbacks in spending. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis government is forcing the voluntary hospitals to work with one hand tied behind their back. No hospital should be forced to choose between paying staff, suppliers or the Revenue Commissioners. It is not how a health service should be run, and it is certainly not in the best interests of the sick or vulnerable who need care in Tallaght Hospital. <br \/><br \/>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in has the plan, vision, and determination to transform our health service. We are a prosperous nation, and we should have a first-class public health system where people have access to health and social care when they need it. The failures of Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il should not lead us to believe that this is not possible.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has accused this government of penny pinching in a time of huge budget surplus and effectively forcing the voluntary hospitals to work with one hand tied behind their back. Teachta Crowe\u2019s comments came as voluntary hospitals such as Tallaght University Hospital, St James\u2019s, and the Mater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5331,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}