James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The figures will be made available. I understand the report is to be published in the next few weeks and the Deputy will then have an opportunity to scrutinise the figures. However, I must restate the decision of the HSE to close the emergency department, on foot of HIQA's recommendation, was based on its assessment of the position prior to any of those figures becoming available. The figures emerged in the course of the debate as further evidence that there was a problem, but that was not the basis on which HIQA made its decision that it was not safe to continue the emergency department in Roscommon in its form at the time.

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