Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

In another case, a woman constituent who became ill has four family members working in very senior jobs in the HSE throughout the country. The decision they made about their mother was that she would not going into any hospital in this country, because they were afraid she would contract MRSA. That is the confidence the people of Ireland have in the health service, and in the Minister and people like her.

I call tonight on Deputies Beverley Flynn and Dara Calleary. I want to tell Deputy Flynn that she was elected by these women as an Independent, not as a Fianna Fáil Deputy. She went through the lobbies before regarding her father, and I admire her for that. I am asking her tonight to come with us and go through the lobby for the women of Mayo, who selected and elected her as an Independent. She told them in Castlebar that she would support them and be with them. I want to know whether she will come up here for the women who want services in Mayo General Hospital.

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