Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The question of University Hospital Limerick was raised already this morning. I want to say to the Taoiseach that while I appreciate and accept what the Government has done and is doing, the situation on the ground there is beyond appalling, quite frankly. There was a time when we had three emergency department, ED, backups, which a group of experts within the HSE decided to abolish.

They said the best idea was to centralise everything and that it would be a wonderful success. If what is there now is a success, I hate to see what failure looks like. Will the Government will give any consideration to reopening at least one of those EDs because we are at the end of our tether?

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