Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Lovely. I have tabled parliamentary questions on a case involving physiotherapy services. I want the witnesses to respond specifically and generally to the example I will give. A person retired from or left a physiotherapy post in An Cheathrú Rua i gCroílár na Gaeltachta. We received a series of letters indicating the post would be filled in due course. Subsequently, either last week or the week before last, we were informed the matter was with the national office in Dublin. The national office then decided the post would not be filled and people from Connemara could travel to Galway city for physiotherapy if they were in the priority 1 category. We could forget about patients in priorities 2, 3 and 4, however. Does the HSE stand over this decision involving a vital physiotherapy post in the heart of the Gaeltacht? I am informed that when a post remains vacant, as in this case, it is eliminated because it has not been filled.