Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I could not agree with the Deputy more. There are two issues. First, part of the narrative problem since Christmas is what people choose to take out of what we are saying. I have done many radio interviews talking about very difficult subject matters in Limerick and all of the time underpinning that by the fact that that is my local hospital, that is where I go and if people need emergency care, they should go there and they will be cared for. I attempted this year to issue a statement when I felt people were making correlations between outcomes in one case and another that are not appropriate or well informed. I could not agree more with the Deputy and, yes, I will take very much to heart what has been said.