Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State is the only one who has dropped the ball, whether it is ludo, draughts or poker. The stakes are high for the people in Cashel. As we heard from Deputy Browne, it is the HSE that is engaged in subterfuge and causing people to have a belief with the different answers it gives. Is there no joined-up thinking in the HSE? There is none whatsoever. We receive replies to parliamentary questions, one of the strongest mechanisms we have at our disposal in the Dáil. We are holding the Minister of State to account. We want this facility built in Cashel. She and the HSE are the ones who two weeks ago introduced a different site. We are not playing football with any sites. We have a site on St Patrick's. I told the Minister of State that my mother was there. I was at many Christmas parties, masses and functions and visited people there. It is fully functional and could fit 350 staff, plus patients. It is a red herring to say the site does not have space for parking.

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