Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

The crux of the current difficulty is the reconfiguration of services in the region and the failure to address the fair deal debacle created by the Minister for Health. The Taoiseach should intervene directly and open a vacant ward up the road in Dundalk to take in those patients who have been clinically discharged from the hospital in Drogheda. I ask him to respond to my proposals.

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