Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-23
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Danny Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

All of this is relevant to providing a service. If we do not have the nurses or GPs on board we cannot operate the service. The main question is why the Minister closed the ophthalmology unit in Tralee general hospital. There are 800 people on the waiting list there. If someone gets hit in the eye or something steel or whatever goes into someone's eye, and there are accidents happening every day of the week, where are they to go now? The Government cut off the insurance and cancelled the insurance for that unit in Tralee. Why was this done? It is the truth. I am not making it up. I am duty bound to highlight it. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her for forbearance.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-23