County Clare healthcare access
Deputy Wynne criticised the Taoiseach over emergency care, trolley overcrowding at UHL, ambulance response times for rural patients, and poor healthcare access for people in County Clare. The Chair repeatedly interrupted as her time expired, and no substantive reply was given before the Taoiseach later answered on the adjacent matters.
A tax cut is no good to people when they live as far away as Loop Head and suffer a heart attack. They can only hope they will stay alive long enough for the ambulance to reach them. A wealth fund is little consolation to a cancer patient who has spent an entire weekend on a trolley in a corridor in the most overcrowded hospital in the country, the figure of which stands at 104 this morning. The Taoiseach said there has been a reduction of 100 nationally. That has had no impact on University Hospital Limerick, UHL. A tax credit is also no good to a suicidal person who has just been discharged from an accident and emergency department with no aftercare and who feels like they have absolutely no hope.
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Shame on this Government for failing-----
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-----to adequately provide access to healthcare for my constituents in County Clare, more than 2,200 of whom------
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-----reported poor or very poor health in the recent census. More than 20% of my constituents have a disability. Shame on the Government for failing my constituents-----
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-----and failing on the urgent emergency care plan. This is no country for young people, old people or rural people. What does the Taoiseach have to say to my constituents in County Clare?