James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

However, I must point out that, were I to tell the House that the report compiled by the west-north west group at a cost of €20,000 was to be utterly ignored, I would be castigated from a height for wasting public resources. Of course it will help to inform the national review, but the fact that some of its options - I remember there being four, not five - suggested closing Ballinasloe hospital's maternity services has no status in my view. I see no rationale for doing that.

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