Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is very hard to understand what has happened with the Mater hospital, which opened the first long Covid clinic and has been operating it since June 2020, has published several articles about Covid and did a very detailed study on long Covid that involved 155 patients. That clinic has built up extraordinary expertise - much more expertise, it could be argued, than any other hospital - and yet that clinic is now being forced to close. What is the rationale behind that?