Seanad debates
Wednesday, 22 October 2003
National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements.
There is a good working relationship between Roscommon County Hospital and Portiuncula and, in turn, between Portiuncula and UCHG and Merlin Park. They work well together. The model is working well and I have received no complaints about it. Why should I embrace the Hanly report? Why should the Minister and the Department embrace it? I was elected by councillors throughout Ireland and I was not elected to say that everything is wonderful or that the report is wonderful. The Minister and the Government have their view while I, as a Fianna Fáil Senator and councillor, have mine. I will campaign to ensure that the accident and emergency service continues in Roscommon. If that department, the shopfront of a hospital, is closed, the patients will be gone. The bigger hospitals will be strengthened and the patients will not return.
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