Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

The Minister still has not informed Members when they will get a chance to be consulted on this issue or when his recommendations for the so-called reconfiguration of services will be out in the public domain. Moreover, the Minister is not answering the question about how St. Vincent's Hospital already is unable to cope on a daily basis. He appears to suggest the downgrading of the accident and emergency service at Loughlinstown hospital, both what it does and the hours it will be open, will have no impact on St. Vincent's, which already is overrun. This does not add up.

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