Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to be associated with Deputy Michael Moynihan's comments and I congratulate the staff at Mallow General Hospital. I had a parliamentary question on this on 29 November asking about Mallow General Hospital, Midleton Community Hospital, St. Finbarr's Hospital, Youghal Community Hospital and so forth and I have not received an answer yet. The Minister gave an answer that there are 20 staff vacancies today in Mallow, but we are still having problems getting answers from the HSE. These community hospitals are the heartbeat of the country and we need to have them fully staffed.

I urge the Minister to keep an eye on the parliamentary questions that we are putting to the HSE because we are not getting the answers at all.

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