Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Under the current Government, patients are safer because, effectively, HIQA could not allow fewer than 20 people a day, out of the 5,000 people who live in Roscommon town, use a hospital. The truth also will come out in this regard. I can guarantee Deputy Mattie McGrath that patients are safer today in Roscommon than was the case in 2010. The hospital will be five times busier than it was in 2010 and will be twice as big. I hope Deputy McGrath will be man enough to stand up and thank Deputy Frank Feighan and this Fine Gael Government under the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, as well as the Minister of State, Deputy White, for doing what is right. This is because what went out there was the greatest untruth to have happened in this country. Unfortunately, as the only Government Deputy in the constituency, I have been holding the line.

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