Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

She talked about providing extra hospital beds through co-location, but not a single extra bed has been provided in that way. She talked about rolling out the HPV vaccine for 12 year old girls next year but she has gone back on that. She talks a very good talk but, unfortunately, she does not deliver. The Minister and the HSE promised that specific actions to improve overcrowding in the accident and emergency unit in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital would be provided if it went along with her plans three years ago, and it did. The hospital was at the top of the list and was supposed to get extra consultants as a reward, but they were never delivered.

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