Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

In 2009, it recommended that smaller "hospitals ... [be] redesignated for minor injuries and non-acute care". Fine Gael set its face against that recommendation and, in my view, opposed it correctly and trenchantly. It is in that context that the Taoiseach made the pre-election commitment on Roscommon hospital in the full knowledge of the HIQA position. The Taoiseach and Labour are now doing-----

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