Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no doubt that this is part of the problem. The Minister needs to do something. I ask him to open up a minor accident and emergency unit at Merlin Park. Second, will the Minister examine the possibility of doing what is done in the smaller hospitals in England? The authorities there have taken away accident and emergency units at such hospitals and replaced them with small stabilisation units.

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