Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)

With regard to reconfiguration and acute hospitals, there is in Tallaght an adult and children's accident and emergency unit. The unit in Tallaght is probably the busiest in the country and I believe it had 77,000 admissions last year. One of the problems with adult accident and emergency departments is a lack of beds and this is causing many of the bottlenecks in the hospital system. With regard to the service for children, current policy means that on the south side of Dublin we will be left with no beds for sick children. Will this be part of the review process? It is daft that sick children will not have overnight beds on the south side of Dublin.

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