Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will let the Minister speak in a moment. I was there for 24 hours.

On the night that I was there the staff could not do enough for me but I witnessed a health hazard and fire hazards of trolleys on both sides of corridors putting patients and staff at risk.

I also know of a person who took their child with scoliosis to a hospital here in Dublin. They had been preparing for this operation for six months and they had the child on the bed waiting to go to surgery, only to be told the operation was cancelled because they did not have a bed for the child after the surgery was finished. These are the most vulnerable people in our society. I need the Minister's help. I need accountability within our hospital system. The Minister should come and meet me in Limerick on a surprise visit. I will bring him around the hospitals and he will be able to see at first hand what is happening.

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