Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish the new Minister and Ministers of State across the way all the very best in their work. We will try to work the best we can with them. There are a lot of elderly people in Kerry presenting with health issues. This is what we are talking about. A lot of people, young and old are not experiencing the health service they would expect. There is one thing that is driving people absolutely stone mad - I would appreciate it if the Minister and Minister of State would listen to me for one second - and that is elderly people being taken out of their warm beds where maybe they have spent a long time because they got sick for one reason or another and are being taken in an ambulance or by family members and they finish up in corridors for 24 or 48 hours and until the weekend without anybody seeing because doctors are not to be found at evening time or late at night because they have finished up. This is totally and absolutely wrong. Will the Minister do something to ensure there is a bed there for the person who is coming out of their own warm bed? This could be an elderly person in their 70s, 80s or even 90s who is waiting for 48 hours in the corridor to get into a ward in University Hospital Kerry. It is not on.

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