Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I heard that testimony and it was so difficult to hear. It is just heartbreaking for Daire and for his family. He and children all over the country need access to the specialised orthopaedic surgeons and treatment in CHI at Temple Street, in CHI at Crumlin, in the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, aided by some of the other hospitals. We are putting in place an ambitious plan. We are funding operating theatres, staff, diagnostics and many things. This will ensure, for Daire and other children who are waiting and whose planned operations have been cancelled again and again - which is so difficult for the children and for the parents - first, that the time they wait goes down and that the number of potential cancellations is minimised.

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