Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change) | Oireachtas source

This is an absolute disgrace. It is similar to moving the chairs on the Titanic at this stage, from the point of view of the HSE. One primary care centre cannot retain or recruit staff and staff are being pulled out of Curlew Road to fill the gap in that centre. It is crazy. Elderly people are being left anxious about where they will get their care from. They are mainly people with mobility issues who use the Mother McAuley centre services and have ulcers, cataracts and all those types of things. We wish to see those services in our community in Drimnagh. I will register the fact that this is wrong. Those nurses should be brought back down, or else the Minister of State should give a commitment that there will be services between the two centres, before 3 April.

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