Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Around this country every year, 13.7 million miles are being clocked up in vehicles when people go for dialysis. One transplant, as well as saving a valued life, saves the health service €750,000 as well as meaning a person is going back to work and a family has someone who was in danger of losing his or her life. At the moment 2,000 people are on dialysis. Since 1 January this year I am led to believe there has been no pancreatic transplant in this country. Since David Hickey resigned, or retired or was forced to go - what he did say was the conditions he was working in were intolerable----

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