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

Today I again raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, and ask for the resignation of all the management there. We always say to trust our health professionals. I hold a letter from our health professionals - 87 of them, doctors and professors - about the overcrowding in UHL. The letter states there has been extreme crowding and relentless demand on services for the past ten years, especially in UHL. We have to get an investigation into the management. We now have 87 doctors and professors - our health professionals; those who we said we should trust - who have come out as well as 11,000 who turned out in Limerick and throughout the country last week. When will this Government listen to us? I am at it for the past two and a half years and the Government has ignored the issue and brushed it under the carpet. It stops now. We want action from Government now. Our 87 health professionals, 11,000 people as well as healthcare staff asked for the Government's help. Limerick Deputies, including Deputy O'Donnell, should stand up and help.

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