Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I am asking a question before I agree to the ordering of the business of the day. That is a valid position for me to adopt. I am asking you, a Cheann Comhairle, for your steer. This matter on the Adjournment nonsense simply will not suffice when we look at the seriousness of what is involved in the closure of accident and emergency services at the Louth County Hospital in Dundalk and their transfer to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. I will conclude with this point and await your answer, a Cheann Comhairle. It will have escaped the notice of many in this House that the so-called transformation plan in 2008 that presented an enhanced ambulance service for the people of Monaghan when they lost the acute services of our hospital there, we had a rapid response vehicle-----

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