Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to publish immediately the Health Service Executive's service plan for 2009, which she has approved and which reportedly proposes massive cuts across our public health services, with life-threatening consequences for patients and long-term damaging effects on our health system which will be similar to the damage done by the savage cuts of the 1980s; and the need for the Minister to place this plan before the Dáil for debate prior to the Christmas recess and to hold herself accountable to the Dáil for it.

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