Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Welfare of Ex-Service Personnel: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Dan Garland:

I do not know how many of those people felt when they came back. Luckily, it did not affect me but it affected many people. They are the ones we should be thinking of today because there are still people going out there. They now have great facilities and they do an excellent job.

I was in Canada five years ago and found out where the veterans were located in Toronto. They have a wing in a huge hospital there, similar to St. Vincent’s Hospital or Beaumont here. Ex-army doctors and nurses are employed in that wing to cater for those in the hospital.