Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will do that. I am altogether aggrieved. The reason I feel aggrieved is because at the time when A Vision for Changed was launched, Oireachtas Members from County Wexford were prepared to take a leap of faith on the policy. What has happened instead is that our county, one of the largest in the country, now has no acute psychiatric admission unit.

I have no wish for St. Senan’s Hospital to reopen under any circumstances. What is being requested - and what has been requested for some time - is the establishment of a six-bed acute psychiatric admission unit somewhere in the county. Most likely, it would be attached to Wexford General Hospital. That is what I am looking for and that is what is required for such a large county. God knows, we have had too many occasions when too many terrible circumstances have arisen when people have taken their own lives. If there was a properly-funded acute admissions service, people's lives could be saved. That is what I am about and that was what I committed to at the last general election. I am surprised that there is nothing in the HSE plans to implement what I am suggesting, that is to say, a six-bed unit somewhere in the county.

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