Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

I hereby give notice pursuant to Standing Order 32 to raise the following matter of urgent importance, namely, the need to ascertain the detailed plans of the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive to curtail service delivery programmes in the HSE's midlands area, incorporating Counties Westmeath, Longford, Offaly and Laois, with particular reference to proposed cutbacks and cost-saving measures under the euphemistic guise of "reconfiguration", affecting Portlaoise Regional Hospital, to include the future of the accident and emergency service, the maternity unit, general surgery and the urology service and how such changes will impact on the people of the midlands.

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