Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise an important matter of public interest requiring urgent consideration, namely, the lack of investment in health services for Dublin's north city which, despite having only half the level of GP service per head as the rest of the country, having hospital waiting lists more than three times the national average and losing 48,000 bed days per year in the Mater and Beaumont hospitals because of the lack of convalescent care, receives only a tiny proportion of the Department of Health and Children's new €900 million investment programme, none of which is being invested in the critical accident and emergency units in the Mater and Beaumont hospitals.

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