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

In that case, in relation to the families with children with physical and or mental disabilities, where the Taoiseach cannot provide the service, could he give them financial help so that they themselves could hire somebody because they cannot continue under the pressure they are experiencing at present?

The district hospital and the Columbanus Home in Killarney are on the same campus. We read that the Government was going to provide more beds but the opposite is happening in Killarney which only has the one community hospital. Where are people who get sick or need a short period of rehabilitation after an operation in Cork or Tralee general hospital supposed to go? There has been a savage cut in Killarney. We are told that HIQA has demanded this. Where was HIQA for the last 20 years, when the same number of people were going? There have already been ward closures in the district hospital in Killarney. To close more now is absolutely scandalous and ridiculous when people are presenting with different things-----

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