Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I will conclude with this quotation:

This is an important issue that we are discussing with the HSE. It should be pointed out that Ireland has the lowest number of consultant obstetricians among OECD countries. Greece, which has also had the IMF in, has nine times as many obstetricians as we have.

The Minister, Deputy Reilly, is presiding over a disgrace. I have it to say that what the Minister is doing now is shameful and I call on him to stop these cuts, to lift the recruitment embargo on front line services and to commence the process of restoring to use a significant number of now closed public hospital beds.

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