Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need to debate the decision by the Government and the HSE to remove the acute medical services from Monaghan General Hospital to Cavan. There are serious implications not only for the people of Monaghan but for County Cavan, where the present hospital cannot cope with its own patients and has already closed down the Pathways special unit for rehabilitation. On the last occasion Monaghan General Hospital was off call many lives were lost and if this proposal is implemented lives will be in danger and it will become the mould for all other general hospitals across the land.

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