Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That protocol is for an emergency, not a 19-month period. This is not acceptable. Cashel hospital is lying idle up the road and we have brought the Minister to see it. Yesterday, the Taoiseach quoted John F. Kennedy but I have another quote from him from 1962: "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic". It is not acceptable that we have to put up with this. Deputy Kelleher outlined earlier what happened down the road in Waterford. We are not second-class citizens in Tipperary or Waterford and we need this hospital to be included in the new capital programme this year.

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