Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the recommendations of Teamwork Management Services which gives priority to improving critical care by centralising all level 3 care where patients need ventilation or other organ failure support at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, in the next three months. This may be in action before the Dáil resumes meaning that critical care will have been removed from Monaghan, Cavan, Navan and Dundalk on the word of an outside body which did not even consult the stakeholders. The House must not wash its hands of this issue and we must have the opportunity to hold the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children responsible.

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