Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

When the clinicians meet the Minister and tell him their proposals are designed to put in place a proper structure in Roscommon to deliver what it can do best, it is not the Government's wish to close down any accident and emergency unit. I will not have a situation, however, where patients' safety is at risk in any hospital in the country. We had enough of that with Fianna Fáil for long enough and we must change it.

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