Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This child has waited five years. This child is suffering. This child can be treated in the United States. The clinicians have told Keara, his mother, that four weeks of halo-gravity traction treatment, which she cannot access here, and then another four weeks will be needed, at least, for the surgery, which will be complex but those surgeons can do it. She needs clarity. She has been given the runaround by a bureaucracy in love with itself, by paper pushers and by layers and layers of unnecessary complexity when the case is very simple.

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