Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)

The Minister mentioned patient safety at Roscommon County Hospital and HIQA. In fact, HIQA representatives did not visit the hospital and produce a specific report on it, although the impression is given that they did. Also, when the campaign to keep the accident and emergency department open was at its height, figures were produced to show that the hospital was somehow four times more dangerous for people having a heart attack and with other conditions, but nobody produced concrete evidence to show that this was the case. Many would deny that it was any more dangerous than the hospital in Galway.

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