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

It is an open secret that the accident and emergency services provided at University Hospital Limerick are grossly inadequate to meet the needs of the population the hospital is supposed to serve. More than six months has elapsed since HIQA was tasked with finding out if these services were adequate, although we all know they are not, and with making recommendations as to improvements that should be made. It took another three months to give that HIQA group terms of reference and we are now told that the first report from HIQA on this matter will be available some time next summer. Does the Taoiseach agree that this does not show the matter being treated with the seriousness it deserves? Can the process be shortened so that we can get on with protecting the lives and well-being of the people we are sent up here to represent?

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