James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The regional hospitals are not getting the additional resources required. The Minister mentioned the considerable successes in the mid-west and the north east, but the people in those areas view them as anything but. People in Drogheda and the rest of the north east are sorely disappointed and disillusioned. I fail to see how a 55-bed acute medicine unit at Monaghan General Hospital will be replaced by a medical assessment unit at Cavan General Hospital.

People can reflect on a modus operandi. A hospital starved of resources consequently starts to engage in unsafe practices and a report commissioned to confirm this fact is used to undermine the hospital further and to close it down.

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