Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

A new accident and emergency unit in Roscommon cost €8 million. The cost of staffing it is €2.5 million but nobody has yet been recruited. There was a protest in this regard outside the hospital last Tuesday. The real problem is a question of capacity. There may be a need for temporary buildings to be erected at hospitals for the capacity problems to be solved, but this should not apply to accident and emergency services. The issue of people coming back from the toilet to discover their chairs have gone is a joke. Perhaps it is a conspiracy of the left and is part of its game to undermine the Government.