Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in. I have to make a contribution in the Dáil shortly, so I appreciate the opportunity to speak early. I thank all four of the witnesses for coming in today, advocating on behalf of their community and sharing their own personal experience. My deepest condolences to Ms McMahon on the loss of her husband in what sound like very difficult circumstances.

We are talking about three different accident and emergency departments here, in Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Hospital. If the Minister were to change the strategy around reconfiguration, he would obviously have to implement some level of prioritisation as to which would get reopened first. What are the witnesses' views, as a collective, on what the priority should be if one or more of these accident and emergency departments were to be reopened? Ms Moran might be the best person to take that question.