Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Tánaiste's offer to set up a meeting. However, I suggest a meeting is probably not enough at this stage. We have been given many assurances. I was given an assurance by the HSE that the combined budgets of the three hospitals involved, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Loughlinstown hospital and St. Michael's Hospital, would increase as part of the reconfiguration. One year later I was told that not only would the budget not be increased, it would be decreased. We were given assurances regarding the timing of when this would happen, but they did not come to pass. Now we have an extremely serious situation where a medical registrar and medical staff are saying people will die. They are telling us the assurances we were given by the HSE have not been met.

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