Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The accident and emergency unit in Nenagh deals with an average of six or seven patients each night and the equivalent unit in Ennis deals with an average of nine patients each night. Can Deputy Reilly, as a doctor, stand over that? The units are not staffed by doctors who are trained in emergency medicine. The staff of the units do not even report to emergency consultants, surgeon consultants or physician consultants.

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