Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish he were here more often. It is said there can be no further downgrading. Our Lady's Hospital in Navan will lose its accident and emergency unit. Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown, the hospitals in Mallow, Bantry, Nenagh and Ennis, St. John's Hospital in Limerick and Roscommon County Hospital have all been affected. The loss of accident and emergency facilities is great news. A hospital without an accident and emergency unit is a shop without a front. It is the beginning of the end for a hospital.