Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I assure the witnesses that when Ms Mullins from Carrick-on-Suir gets to speak, she will tell the committee there are 11,000 signatures from that area and the HSE is not listening there either. While we have three groups here today, we know of two more that have petitions on the way regarding Clifden District Hospital, and in my town, Cashel, a unit is supposed to go up in Saint Patrick's Hospital and it is being dragged out. The Covid-19 pandemic was used across the board in all instances to close places down. To be fair, each community accepted it because of the times, but the underhand way the HSE has come back and closed places down is the biggest problem.