Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-28
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

What we will do for Kylie Ann, children right across the country, parents and families is get this back on track. We saw the progress that could be made in 2017. We saw the fall in wait times, the extra children getting their services and the Ombudsman for Children's report welcoming some of that. We now have an extra €19 million. There are additional staff. I am very clear on that. There are 193 more staff and a new theatre due to open. New diagnostic equipment, an MRI scanner, is due to come on stream in Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin. Let us not suggest that any of us has greater concern than anyone else because I could equally ask the Deputy what he is going to do. While he has rightly raised the issue over the last while-----

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Sitting date: 2024-02-28