Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will certainly have the case looked into and I will discuss it with the Minister for Health and ask that full consideration is given to it. However, what I will not do in the House - it would not be the right thing to do even if I had the authority to do so - is direct that the Health Service Executive do anything in any individual case. That is not how decisions should be made. It is important that decisions are made by the professionals and that where resources have to be allocated, they are allocated in that way. I do not think that because a case is raised in the Dáil, it should cause a particular decision to be ordered or made.

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