David Maxwell (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I will finish briefly. Coming from Monaghan, I can drive to Cavan or Drogheda. You may be in Northern Ireland. We are lucky enough to be able to attend Craigavon but the issue is the waiting time when you get there. People blame that on local services having been removed and the pressure put on the centres of excellence, as they are called. People get peeved that they have to wait six, eight or ten hours in an accident and emergency department just to get seen. There is a bit of work to be done there. If you could get seen within, say, three or four hours, people might accept it more, but you may have to sit for ten hours. Many people say, "After eight hours, I just said, 'I am going home.'" Now, if they say they are going home, was their condition that serious? However, it is making it harder to sell any reason that services have to be moved.