Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Many of them want to be at home in Mayo looking after their children. Many of them are not particularly well and they would prefer to be in Mayo. The reason they are here is that they went through Mayo General Hospital. We have excellent surgeons in Mr. Kevin Barry, Dr. Mary Casey and Mr. Ronan Waldron and the Minister is now going to remove our surgeons from Mayo to Galway, although Galway cannot cope as it is. She expects our women to believe her when she says the service is Galway will be better than they are getting in Mayo General Hospital. That is why they are here tonight, because they know what they have and they cannot believe any more promises from Fianna Fáil, the PDs or this Government supported by the ragbags of Independents, because they do not believe them any more.

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