Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I suggest to the Tánaiste that while having a meeting is fine, because the allegations are so serious, we need an independent and urgent review. I do not know whether the 50% figure is correct, whether ICU is operating at overcapacity, whether GPs are referring patients or whether there has been a doubling of admissions out of hours, but we need an urgent and independent review. I have two requests to make of the Tánaiste. I thank him for saying he will arrange a meeting, but as well as this, will he ask that an independent review be commissioned immediately and a report provided? Will he also commit that if the review finds that the allegations have substance and that the necessary resources have not been provided for St. Vincent's University Hospital, the Government will provide them immediately?

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