Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is an issue concerning numbers in Galway-Roscommon. As the Minister of State knows, there is a historic issue there regarding people with an intellectual disability and that needs to be acknowledged. We are opening a high observation unit as an interim measure, which did not exist three months ago when we had a crisis in Roscommon. It is planned to demolish that €3 million facility in two years' time.

As regards the issue of money following the patient, why is it that a woman can have her baby in Portiuncula Hospital but if she has acute post-natal depression she cannot be treated in Ballinasloe because it is not within her catchment area?

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