Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

Is the Tánaiste aware, as Minister for Health and Children, that the number of children diagnosed with diabetes in Cork has doubled over a very short period of time and is now 207? There is now no diabetes nurse in Cork University Hospital, when there should be three. There is a part-time endocrinologist, access to a part-time social worker and part-time dietician. Some of the children are as young as 18 months——

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