Dáil debates

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

3:10 pm

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As for Limerick, as Deputies will be aware, a new emergency department, perhaps the most modern in the country, is open and functioning; a new block, the Leben block, opened two or three years ago; a further block of 60 beds is under construction and should open next year; and another block of 96 beds is planned to be built after that. Deputy Healy, I think, called for the reopening of the emergency departments in Nenagh and Ennis and perhaps other parts of the country. He also quoted the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine. They are the doctors who work in emergency departments, they are the experts when it comes to emergency departments and they say we should not reopen-----

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