Hospital Services Dail Éireann — 2023-07-04 ============================================================ Michael Fitzmaurice (IND), Roscommon-Galway A total of €22 billion is being spent on health in this country. It is ironic that the Minister of State says that a sixth of the population is in that area, which covers one third of the country. It is a big area and we should try to bring the services as close as we can. These people were prepared to travel. There is no question of that. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-07-04/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:06+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-07-04