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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: The former Minister for Health, James Reilly, and the Taoiseach closed it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Senator Feighan should be very proud. This child had to be brought-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: It is not nonsense when a two-year-old child has to be brought to Portiuncula Hospital when the situation was very serious. The child has received a bill from Intrum Justitia for €100. The family earns €400 per week. This company has been directed by the HSE. The company seems to be chaired by a Swedish individual called Lars Lundquist while other individuals on the board of...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Well I am going to name them because I believe they should be named.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: I have a few more names but I will not give them out of respect for the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: This company has been assigned to pursue a two-year-old child for €100. That is bloody outrageous. It is about time the Minister for Health took control of the health service. He should not allow these bureaucrats to engage an international company to collect €100. The bill was sent to the child but the child cannot pay it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: I am telling my constituents not to pay it in the circumstances because a child aged two years of age is not liable for a bill of €100. It is outrageous. Senator Feighan can be very proud that the accident and emergency department in Roscommon University Hospital is closed. It is a bloody shame and Senator Feighan voted to close it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Rubbish. Absolute lies.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: The Senator voted for the closure.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Not if you are dead.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: People have died as a result of the accident and emergency department being closed.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: I can name them.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: I can name a lady-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Up at the Abbey Hotel-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: She bled to death.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: I will name names. She bled to death near the Abbey Hotel.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: If she had been -----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: She bled-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: She bled to death.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Terry Leyden: Senator Feighan knows that if the hospital had been open, she would not have bled to death.