Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Milford Care Centre provides palliative care services for patients in Limerick, Clare and north Tipperary. This week, at a meeting concerning that facility's hospice care centre, a decision was made that from 1 January, all physiotherapy services, occupational therapists and social workers are to be withdrawn from the north Tipperary region. We have mentioned cancer and cancer treatment many times here this morning. It is just unacceptable to reduce the service that is available. This is being focused on north Tipperary. Obviously it is being done for budgetary reasons, but I ask the Minister to get the HSE to reverse this decision.

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