Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not know if the petitioners have written to the health committee. Perhaps Deputy Buckley knows. Regardless, I still come back to the point that this committee gives people from communities all over the country an opportunity to bring their concerns to a public platform in Dáil Éireann. If we bypass them with the HSE, there is a possibility that the people of south Tipperary, south Kilkenny, north Waterford and Midleton in Cork will never get to put their case for their own communities and their services in front of anybody here. That is the worry I would have.