Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is. It is from the programme for Government, based on health reform and the improvement of services. What is happening here is that staff in general hospitals have been advised to get patients out of the beds to make room for other patients who are on trolleys. That is not the way to do it. What they are doing is insisting that families sign up to the fair deal scheme before they allow them to stay in the general hospitals or before they are transferred to the step-down district and community hospitals. What are the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach going to do about this? Are they in charge of health or not?

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