David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

What is difficult to understand is why, when confronted with this situation, no provision was made to develop this capacity rather than outsource.

Finally, it is intolerable in 21st century Ireland for Vicky Phelan to be sentenced to death by bureaucracy, just as it was utterly wrong for Susie Long in Kilkenny to be sentenced to death for poverty. She did not get the appropriate treatment for three years and eventually died because she did not have private insurance and was way back in the queue. I understand Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordán will be seconding-----