Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This was to be a hospital for all the country but now we see that it will just be a hospital for Dublin. The only way in is by bicycle or for fit people to walk. No helicopter can land at the site. What happened that led to the price being wrong? We told the Government in March 2017 that the cost would escalate beyond belief. One example of a reason why is that 100 lorries have to take two trips a day from Monasterevin or Longford to dig out the hole. That is where some of the money is gone. Then we have the most frightening scene one has ever seen: a hole with props larger than any I have ever seen in my life holding up the bank to stop neighbouring houses from falling in.

Half of the beds in the hospitals in Kenmare and Dingle are not yet open. I have begged the Minister to open them time and time again. He promised that he would open more beds in Tralee general hospital. He did not. People can either go to Belfast or go blind. We take all of those people up to Belfast. It is so hard on them to travel the long journey. They have no confidence in the Minister and I have no confidence in him either.

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