Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD and a member of the Tallaght\u00a0Hospital Action Group \u00a0has challenged Taoiseach Enda Kenny\u2019s claim in the D\u00e1il that\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital staff were responsible for an elderly ending up on a trolley, describing his remarks as \u2018outrageous\u2019<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cTaoiseach Enda Kenny has lost the run of himself and has the brass neck to blame\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital staff on a crisis in Accident & Emergency and awful scenario where an elderly patient was left on a trolley for 29 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo suggest that staff in hospital are somehow responsible is outrageous and ignores his government role in cutting services to the bone since they came into office. Taoiseach Enda Kenny conveniently ignores his own governments \u00a0cuts to health funding, the removal of thousands beds from the hospital system, the shortage of key staff, the lack of step down facilities, the failure to roll out primary care facilities and the \u00a0lengthening waiting list for life changing operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaoiseach Enda \u00a0Kenny is clearly out of touch with reality and the stresses facing most Irish citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s easier to blame hard working hospital staff or \u00a0seriously ill patients for getting sick, \u00a0rather than blaming \u00a0his own \u00a0Minister for Health or his Cabinet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Chief Executive Officer in\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital publicly warned back in 2013 that patient safety would be put at risk by budget cuts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaoiseach Enda Kenny needs to retract his scurrilous statement against\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital staff and their reputation. His latest rantings undermine his office and try to trivialise the challenges facing hospital staff on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD and a member of the Tallaght\u00a0Hospital Action Group \u00a0has challenged Taoiseach Enda Kenny\u2019s claim in the D\u00e1il that\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital staff were responsible for an elderly ending up on a trolley, describing his remarks as \u2018outrageous\u2019 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cTaoiseach Enda Kenny has lost the run of himself and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,81,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin-south-west","category-health","category-tallaght","category-tallaght-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}