James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The Minister does not seem to understand that one cannot fix accident and emergency departments unless one fixes the entire system. If one tries to fix accident and emergency departments in isolation, one moves the problem to the wards or back into the community.

Will the Minister explain why in almost six years in the job she has been unable to address this issue, why she has reduced the number of beds rather than increase the number which she said she would do and why she has failed to meaningfully roll out the primary care strategy which at the rate of the current roll-out, nobody in this House will be alive to see its completion?

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