Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Wexford General Hospital accident and emergency unit operated out of a converted pharmacy. I do not know if Deputy Adams considers that suitable or whether he thinks it should continue in that situation. At St. Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny, accident and emergency has operated from a portakabin since 2000. Any public representative will understand that these are major hospitals which have had commitments for support from everybody in getting on with the provision of these facilities, which are part of the restructuring of the health system to ensure that patients have the best facilities available to them for their treatment. In 2006, the then Minister for Health and Children stood over here and described the fact that people were waiting on trolleys as a national emergency and said the situation was unacceptable. It was. The party that was then in the majority, Fianna Fáil, said it would take urgent action, but both projects have languished on the capital programme since then.

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