Paddy McHugh (Galway East, Independent)

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following specific and important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention, namely, the failure of the Western Health Board to expend the funding available to it in the years 2002 and 2003 with the result that it ends up with a surplus of €15 million; this surplus is at a time when an improvement in services is needed in the Western Health Board area and when the Grove Hospital, purchased by the Western Health Board in Tuam, County Galway, at the instigation of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health and Children, remains closed because funding has not been allocated to reopen it, and to discuss the allocation of the surplus of €15 million to finance the Tuam hospital project.

See this speech in context