Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Needless to say as someone who represents the constituency in which Roscommon Hospital is situated I welcome anything new that comes to the hospital. Of course I do. Why would I not? It is obviously to my benefit and that of my family, my neighbours and constituents. The Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, promised us at the last general election that our accident and emergency department would be safe. The Minister's comments and his failure to correct them in the Official Report has caused irreparable damage to the reputations of the medical clinicians, the staff and the hospital. I am now requesting that the Minister correct inaccurate statements made in the Dáil which would at least go some way to restoring the reputations damaged by his original misleading, inaccurate statements on this matter. That must be done because the Minister has done damage.

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