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

Commitments were made to the healthcare service in the programme for Government. I am speaking on behalf of healthcare workers in Kerry. I am referring to the people who work in kitchens, healthcare assistants, nurses, doctors and consultants in hospitals such as Caherciveen and in Killarney town, where we need new community hospitals, and University Hospital Kerry, where we need more beds to cater for the ever increasing number of patients who attend that hospital. Those excellent people are under tremendous personal pressure in trying to do their work every day. They put their hearts and souls into their commitment to their jobs. I ask HSE management, I am specifically talking about HSE management in Cork, to realise the people in Kerry are working extremely diligently in trying to deliver a proper healthcare service. We need more assistance from those in management. I want them to realise there is more to the healthcare service in that area than just Cork. Kerry exists and I want to make sure the Taoiseach, the Minister for health and the managers in the HSE remember that.

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