FG: Bed closures ‘a disgrace’

FINE GAEL has described as a disgrace the impending closure of 21 beds and the suspension of respite care at Leopardstown Park Hospital, in south Dublin.

The party’s Dublin South TD, Olivia Mitchell, said she had raised the issue in the Dáil but complained it was “lost in the flood of complaints about the health service”.

Her party colleague Alan Shatter TD expressed his shock at the announcement that the hospital has this week cancelled all respite care bookings from the beginning of May onwards and has stated that its respite care service is suspended indefinitely.