Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need to summon the Minister for Health and Children into this House to give an undertaking that she will immediately halt the cut to accident and emergency services at Our Lady's Hospital Navan, and to afford the people of its catchment area a reasonable level of health service; and to get an undertaking from the Minister that she will cease cramming services into Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, which does not have the capacity to take on these additional services. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is not a regional hospital and does not have the capacity to handle the work of a regional hospital. The Government should wise up and stop cutting back on our health services.

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