Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matters: the decision by the North Eastern Health Board to downgrade Louth County Hospital in Dundalk by ending consultant surgical services after 5 p.m. daily; the unnecessary and dangerous proposal to transfer patients to the already overcrowded Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the necessity for the Government to provide adequate health care cover for all people in County Louth: the need to end of drip-feed closure announcements, the latest of which came through the LM/FM "Loose Talk" programme; and the downgrading of health care services generally.

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