Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will follow up on a comment the Taoiseach made earlier about the supposed good news and the clinical lead of the paediatric diabetes service in Mullingar. With the greatest respect, the information the Taoiseach put on the record of the Dáil is not entirely correct, because that letter was not seen by the clinical lead, Professor O'Grady, until after it had been issued to parents. The proposed solution that has been put forward today is to move the paediatric diabetes nurse from Portlaoise to Mullingar for a period of three weeks. With the greatest of respect to this lady - I have no doubt she is very good at what she does - I am told that she has no training in pumps or pump management. If the 145 children who attend the Mullingar service have an issue with their pump, there is no support available to them. The parents, especially of children as young as two years of age who have been recently diagnosed, are beside themselves with worry at this point. They cannot go to their GPs.

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