Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matter: the deteriorating delivery of health care at Cavan General Hospital; the fact that at least 14 serious complaints are being investigated regarding Cavan General Hospital's declining quality of services; the unusually high volume of accident and emergency cases presenting at the hospital, which certainly does not constitute best practice but rather unsafe practice; the unnecessarily high levels of pressure and stress staff at the hospital are being subjected to; the fact that elective surgery has all but ceased at the hospital; to call for the immediate restoration of on-call status at Monaghan General Hospital to relieve the intolerable pressure on services and staff at Cavan General Hospital; and the immediate appointment by the Minister for Health and Children of a committee of inquiry to deal with the outstanding case of two consultants at Cavan General Hospital who were suspended indefinitely without pay on 18 August 2003.

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