Sinn Féin’s Donegal TD Pearse Doherty has today criticised the Health Minister in the Dáil for his continued refusal to come to Donegal and meet with GPs and Consultants who have taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter to him highlighting their serious concerns about Letterkenny University Hospital.
Speaking to Minister McConalogue, Teachta Doherty said:
“Minister McConalogue, it is now over a month since almost 80 GPs and 11 Consultants from our own county wrote to the Minister for Health expressing their grave concerns about the deepening crisis in Letterkenny University Hospital.
“They have requested that the Minister for Health travel to Donegal and meet with them urgently.
“The Minister for Health is sitting three seats over from you. You went on local radio, on Highland radio, and said that he would come to Donegal. One month on and the Minister has still not come to Donegal.
“He has still not met with them. He has refused to take up that offer, despite the unprecedented intervention.
“Indeed, on two separate occasions, two weeks in a row, the Minister for Health refused to come before this house to debate a topical issue with myself and Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn on this crisis in Letterkenny.
“So I ask you, Minister McConalogue, or indeed the Minister for Health if he wants to discuss this, to stand up and be counted.
“It is a month on and you still haven’t shown them the respect to actually travel to Donegal and meet them and hear their concerns,” he said.
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