Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Nor is it acceptable that medical doctors and personnel should be left hanging about when people have been notified of an appointment and decide not to turn up for it.

That is something that is very easy to rectify. Any young boy or girl who is going to training, a football match or anything else will not only get a notice but a text to remind them. To put it mildly, it is most unfortunate that people refuse to turn up for appointments with doctors or medical personnel. There are always occasions when this can happen but it is very easy to send a text or message to say that something has happened and that you cannot be there and somebody else can have that appointment. I have seen doctors waiting around in hospitals for a person to turn up but there is no word. That is not good enough either.

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