Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will come to that, but the Senator opened with a nakedly political point, which is, of course, his right. I am, though, going to respond with one. Sinn Féin has not called for the reopening of the accident and emergency departments. The party's spokesperson, and I believe he deserves great credit for this, resisted these calls and said he would follow the clinical advice. The unambiguous clinical advice we have, and Dr. Henry is here and he can reiterate it, is that to reopen accident and emergency departments in those hospitals, as they stand, would be very dangerous. So-----