Over 1,100 car park spaces being managed at Letterkenny Hospital 

There are currently over 1,100 car parks spaces at Letterkenny University Hospital being managed on the campus including 105 spaces in a dedicated patient/visitor short term car park and almost 50 disabled parking bays, Cllr Ciaran Brogan has been told that at this month’s meeting of the Regional Health Forum West in Galway.

The management, control and operation of the numerous car parks on the busy Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) Campus requires an expert and experienced car park management company as there are over 2,500 staff permits to be managed on a daily basis with over 180,000 patients and visitors attending the hospital annually, 

Cllr Brogan had sought an updated Can we get an updated report on what steps if any are being proposed by the management of Letterkenny University Hospital campus to address the challenges of traffic management and car-parking in and around the hospital for now and for future development and planning around the hospital campus?

He was informed by Tony Canavan, Regional Executive Officer, HSE West and North West

that Hospital Management in conjunction with the site car park management company are constantly striving to improve the car park facilities at the hospital and in the last 12 months have reconfigured reserved car park spaces to create an additional car park for patients and visitors close to the hospitals main entrance doors and reopened the dedicated short term car park following the Covid 19 Pandemic.

The named car park spaces have been removed and a dedicated reserved car park for nominated staff created which provided an additional 30 plus spaces since 2023.

Staff are being encouraged and incentivised to use alternative transport methods to come to work i.e. carpooling, cycle to work, public transport etc.

A number of areas have been identified that could be developed to add further parking space. 

These have been shared by LUH with the HSE estates department to review viability.

Over the next few months, there are plans to upgrade the car park surface in a number of areas and to repaint some carriageways and car park spaces, which will include disabled parking bays. 

The medium term plans include discussion and consideration regarding reinstating the Covid 19 testing Centre which removed almost 100 spaces and our longer term plans include the construction of a multi-story car park on the campus.