Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

Is the Minister aware there have been a number of cases where patients were approached by the NTPF, but when they were directed towards a hospital they were denied care? One was a constituent of mine. Is the Minister also aware of a case relating to a person from Dunboyne in County Meath? When the family phoned the hospital, it replied that it had received a written directive from the NTPF not to take any patients until January.

Will the Minister reflect on her reply because I am sure she does not intentionally want to mislead the House? The examples I have given are the actual record and I ask the Minister to comment on it.

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