Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Who could have known the Government would seek to do it by closing the hospital as we know it?

I want an answer from the Taoiseach. Why did he and the Minister for Health make those clear promises? In advance of the election as Opposition spokesman, the Minister for Health wrote to the clinical director of operations in the HSE and told him to stop the configuration plans because he would be Minister in a month and would sort this out. That might have appeared a great political stroke at the time but why did he make those promises? Why did he reassure people about the future of Roscommon Hospital when he knew it was about to be closed as an accident and emergency facility?

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