Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am a mother and, like everybody who has children, I have plenty of experience of children who have experienced various illnesses at different times in their lives. There is no parent - the Deputy is also a parent herself - whose heart does not go out to these parents. However, we are providing extra staff and an additional theatre. We are calling on resources available in the private sector, in the Blackrock Clinic and the United Kingdom, to ensure urgent operations are carried out as quickly as possible.

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