The moratorium on employment and the failure to invest in the public service has already affected services. In my area, with which Deputy O'Donnell will be familiar, the HSE's idea to centralise the emergency and acute surgical services of the hospitals in Ennis and Nenagh is having a huge effect on the accident and emergency services in Limerick Regional Hospital. The nurses at the hospital have balloted on industrial action on foot of the failure of the HSE and the Minister for Health and Children to live up to their commitments and invest in the centralisation of the services.

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