Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: why Mayo patients must still wait for up to eight years for urgent urology hospital services in Galway and why an 80-year old man who, clinically, has cancer of the prostate has already been waiting for 16 months to see the consultant urologist in Galway for urgent treatment; why this situation must continue when the solution is a urology consultant unit at Mayo General Hospital; and why it should be tolerated that people waiting for urgent urology treatment will more than likely have a shorter lifespan due to the negligence of Government in dealing with our health services. It is a disgrace.

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