Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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Everybody is very supportive. It is important one tries to take account of where health planning is going. Otherwise the group will keep getting shot down. If it is not the facilities, the HSE will come back to it about something else. Getting St. Brigid's back into use and, I hope, getting palliative care back into St. Brigid's properly is the high-end of achievement that should be looked for. I do not doubt there will be very little opposition from medical palliative people. There will be opposition from other-systems people. It can be done. If the proposal is well-grounded and well-researched and brought back in here, I think everybody here will be prepared to front up.

If the group is not getting access to questions, we as Deputies can put in parliamentary questions, which Departments are obliged to be answer. One does not always get the full comprehensive answer but Departments are obliged to answer. I ask the witnesses to keep on sending them to me or anybody else here. We will keep putting them forward and trying to seek answers. This issue has to be kept alive or the HSE will hope it will fall away over time.