Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make the same point to the Taoiseach. Our local hospital, the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar, is also a maternity hospital, and not just for my constituency but also for the midlands. The hospital put a business case to the HSE for it to provide €120,000 in order to ensure the hospital could comply with the national maternity plan. The business case for €120,000 was refused by the HSE just before Christmas. It is not good enough for the Taoiseach to say that this is part of the national maternity plan and that it is his wish and desire. Real action must follow through on that issue. One third of the expectant mothers who present to the hospital in Mullingar are scanned. This means that two thirds of expectant mothers fail to get that scan. It is a priority that should be implemented and rolled out across all maternity hospitals.

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