Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The health section on page 53 of the programme for Government gives a commitment "increase access to safe, timely care, as close to patients’ homes as possible". Within our constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, children who break a limb have to wait two whole weeks to get an appointment at the fracture clinic in Drogheda hospital. This medical care is neither timely nor close to a patient's home. I have also been informed that patients attending Cavan General Hospital have had their fracture clinic slots in Drogheda reduced to five slots every two weeks. Will the Taoiseach give a commitment to the children of Cavan-Monaghan who break limbs - which happens quite often with children - that they will be seen more often than that?

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