Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is. Any day one gets it, one takes it. The programme for Government includes specific commitments in the health area, and Deputy Grealish has raised some matters regarding Galway. My question is about South Tipperary General Hospital. A total of 41 people are on trolleys there today, which is the highest number in the country. It is a small hospital compared to Cork University Hospital, CUH, or Beaumont Hospital, so this is totally intolerable. Despite the money announced for the winter initiative nothing has happened to help the hospital.

In spite of my colleague, Deputy Lowry, planning to helicopter in motel-type accommodation here, which is pie in the sky and which the Minister must have told him about or somebody else must have dreamt it, nothing has happened. There is a chronic situation in that hospital. If the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health are not going to open Cashel hospital, will they sell it and get a private operator to take it over and ask it to run it?

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