Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have tolerated a system where women have been treated very badly. I will run out of time very quickly, but the figures are incredible.

I will finish with the example of Clifden District Hospital. We will always need beds, respite beds and step-down facilities. That it could be contemplated that this facility would be closed is simply intolerable. I know things have progressed a tiny bit but we were given many different contradictory excuses, such as that hands were tied by the union, there was a lack of staff and a lack of demand. Yet, all of the time, there were beds in the hospital being occupied.

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