Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will do that on the floor of the Dáil but I am not and never have been afraid to speak up. I will take the advice of An Cathaoirleach. The Government has made mistakes. When you make a mistake, if you stand up, say you have made a mistake, try to fix it and listen to the people who know, it is an honourable thing to do. Anyone can make a mistake. By not fixing its mistake, the Government is putting lives at risk. How many people have come from Ennis and Nenagh, passed those hospitals on the way to UHL and died on the way to hospital? They did not even get there. This is negligence on behalf of the policy makers and Ministers. We must hold them to account for people's lives. I will not stop fighting but the only way we can change policy is by changing Government and this is in the witnesses' hands. It is in the hands of every person in those areas because they can see that there has been a problem for the past 15 years and the only way to fix that problem to fix the policy makers. Unless we have an overall majority, we cannot change it. They are the people we need to target to make sure this happens and they need to be reminded of this.