Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will ask the broader question. If somebody is waiting, in dire pain and display suicidal tendencies and behaviours, where do I go? I am at a loss. There are cases across the board and I really need to know what to do in those cases when somebody is presenting with suicidal behaviour.

There has been much discussion of capacity in hospitals and step-down beds. Are there plans to provide more services through the district hospitals, perhaps looking to reverse some of the Fianna Fáil decisions to close the beds in these district hospitals? Is the reversal of that policy being considered, with investment being put into district hospitals and particularly hospitals like that in Belmullet, which saw half of its beds cut in 2010? I will leave the rest of the questioning to somebody else but I look forward to the answers.