Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I heard Deputy Keaveney speaking on the case of the north west. The Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, knows the issue well because I spoke on it when he was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health and Children. It is a disgraceful case. I raised the matter, even though it does not relate to my area. Those surgeons, nurses, etc., doing very valuable work, would not stop their work unless they were desperate.

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