Jimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I previously lived in Lifford, which is about a mile from Strabane. Everyone in Donegal is aware of the threat of closure of Lifford community hospital, which is a residential home.

For the past two or three years Sinn Féin councillors and Deputies have been jumping up and down on platforms stating how disgraceful this is, while a two minute jog away on the other side of the river there is not one peep out of them about the closure of Greenfield House. In 2009, a Sinn Féin Councillor in Strabane, Jarlath McNulty, stated, "Most Greenfield residents have been there long term and to be forced to move out of familiar surroundings and away from friends and care staff at this stage would be extremely traumatic and detrimental to their health and wellbeing". This is the same party which issued a statement today-----