Hospital Services
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-13
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

My office has been inundated with demands for a dedicated outpatient neurology service provided by a consultant neurologist at Letterkenny University Hospital. The community neurorehabilitation team in the north west is seriously understaffed and operating with only one third of the required number of staff. This will not change until the HSE's recruitment embargo is lifted. That recruitment embargo was brought about by Government underfunding of the health service. Is it not time for better neurology services to be delivered for the people of Donegal and the north west? If so, what will the Minister do about it?

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Sitting date: 2024-06-13