Poor staff were hoping for a quiet Monday for a change .

They need the 32 hours to move all the equipment…like trolleys,computers,printers,resus equipment etc….and to be sure everything is working fully before re-opening. You could not have both fully open…as there wouldnt be the equipment in both buildings.The other Dublin hospital EDs must be under significant pressures for the move to have been cancelled.!!

So they’re happy to let the misery and mayhem continue for frontline staff in A&E while they’re safely tucked away in the safety of their management suites. How exactly do they propose to open this thing without exerting some temporary pressure elsewhere? I shudder when I see the words “hospital management” in one sentence. Clueless.

Couldn’t they open the new one, start to take the load away from the old one and phase the old one down over a matter of hours.

Sure you’d end up paying more people for a short period of time but it’d work with careful management.

ALL the Dublin emergency departments are under constant pressure. It never lets up…..If management are waiting for a quiet period to close for the relocation, they’ll be waiting- Just like the patients !!!

Management in the Mater hospital said it does not want to “impose additional pressures on other hospitals”.

So the current bad working conditions for the Maters staff and patients is set to continue, while a brand new facility sits gathering dust.

Well at least Management in the Mater won’t get the blame, cause it’s all the fault of the other hospitals.

The Department of Health’s Special Delivery Unit (SDU) vetoed the move as the number of patients waiting on trolleys in Dublin Emergency Departments this week is the same as for the equivalent period in 2012, despite them saying that they have sorted the trolley waits. This UK company have been paid a lot of taxpayers money to solve the overcrowding problem and have not. The SDU have modelled that the trolley numbers for the next two weeks will exceed comparable 2012 figures as wards are being closed as agency nurses are being laid off in preparation for the new graduate nurse programme.

Thus a new ED which was built to relieve overcrowding in a small overcrowded major Dublin ED is postponed because of overcrowding…… “Yes Minister” on a grand scale. And our long suffering patients are the last consideration.

Someone forgot to call the man with the van!

This is a clear indication of bad management and I suspect this is only a symptom of other issues.This is totally inefficient and ill planed and this type of stuff is what is causing the problems in the whole health service.I bet we don’t get a name attached to this decision or cockup,whichever you choose to call it.Nobody answerable!!!Nobody home

Damned if they do and damned if they dont. Problem is total lack of cpacity in the system.

Im sure the reason is more to do under staffing Issues rather than putting undue presure on other A&E departments

When ever they move can only be a huge improvment of where they are now no one like to be in any a/e but the Mater is one place I would rather not be in not blaming the staff dont know what is to blame . One thing for sure it makes me value Tallaght hospital much more than I ever did before.

This is great, a new, ready to go and much needed A+E unit that cost millions, but they don’t want to use it for fear of increasing pressure on other hospitals marginally for a day.

So instead its going to sit gathering dust for ages!

They have’nt the will to get anything done it is like the most inefficient highest wage demand management get the job every time .There is a complete breakdown in every important department in this country a complete overhaul is needed the money squandered and the facilities that are left from the boom reeks of fraud to me.Alot of money has gone missing in the health serivce alot.

Look ar who the minister for health is and you have the full explanation as to why so many things go wrong with our health service. He makes Harney , Martin look efficient. My experience is the Mater A&E is dreadful, rather use Blanch or Beaumont

The HSE and hospital management don’t care about patients. So what really happened?

Just close it!!! The Hse have closed lots of a and e s in many hospitals outside of dublin