Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----where people go to their doctor, the doctor refers them to a hospital and no one at the hospital even opens the letter, and, moreover, even when they do get an X-ray, the consultant radiologist does not see it. There are 14,000 patients whose X-rays have still not been looked at by a consultant radiologist in that hospital and we do not know when they will be looked at. Where is the Minister for Health and Children? She is on a two-week trip to New Zealand to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

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