Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a very serious issue and we all know this. There is an issue because we need more of our doctors from University Hospital Limerick going to the smaller hospitals.

As Deputy Kelly has said several times, he lives there. It is not happening. Surgeons are going to St. John's in Limerick but other doctors are not. They are not doing it. We can put more services and see more patients in smaller hospitals, including those in Deputy Kelly's constituency that he knows very well, but we need some of our senior doctors to leave University Hospital Limerick, get into their cars and visit the smaller hospitals. I really mean this. I know it and I can stand over it.