Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To intervene, this matter has been raised a number of times. We received a reply from management at the hospital. It exited the hospital to allow it to be used for other facilities. Management has also denied the allegation that it is never there. It is on record as saying that is not true and that they are present at various times during the day. Therefore, it has been raised and discussed on numerous occasions. I need to intervene on behalf of those senior staff. They are in there and, as far as we are aware, they are doing their work. They have acknowledged that there are challenges in the hospital, but they are on site every day and it would be wrong for me to allow the impression to go out that they are not present and making those decisions. Part of the movement off site was to facilitate the greater expansion of services within the hospital.