Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The figures for the past 12, 24 or 36 months are not too far from the original figures I had confirmed. I am concerned the Minister of State's language around this issue does not engender confidence in families who are gravely concerned that they must wait a significant length of time with respect to children who are nearly in mainstream education at this stage, with no diagnosis. The Minister of State is so optimistic about the future in terms of transformation, yet while she stood here yesterday and spoke about a unit in University College Hospital Galway, part of the roof was blowing off that building. She is transferring vulnerable service users into an inappropriate unit at UCHG where there are three showers for 40 unwell service users. Is that the type of transformation she is talking about? Is she talking about the transformation where part of the roof is blown off UCHG while the Minister stood here yesterday and robustly defended a decision-----

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