Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Gino Kenny is ill today so I am asking this question on his behalf. Six beds closed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire in August, meaning, scandalously, that 12 beds have closed in that hospital. The other six have been closed since the end of 2017 due to staff and other resource shortages.

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In August, however, six paediatric inpatient beds were shut as a result of the inability of the consultant who works out of Crumlin hospital to provide paediatric cover because they apparently went on unplanned leave.

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