Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

They got an offer to enable them to provide what the Minister should be doing, namely, provide for the people who are on a waiting list for six months and clogging up the accident and emergency departments in South Tipperary General Hospital and University Hospital Waterford. After eight days, the contract was pulled. The Minister told me himself when I chatted to him privately and publicly that he had no money to pay for it.

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