Kathleen O'Meara (Labour)

—which states that smaller hospitals should be closed. It would again appear that this headline came about as a result of a leak or that it was based on some sort of deduction about what will be contained in the Hanly report. If one is to believe the headline, it will mean that a hospital such as Nenagh General Hospital would lose either its acute hospital status or its accident and emergency unit and become a satellite hospital of Limerick or some sort of primary care unit.

We are entitled to know what is contained in those reports. We are entitled to know the justification for what appear to be major reductions in services in local communities. The Government should not believe that people will sit by and let their local services be diluted and undermined.