Articles Tagged With Denis Naughten
Section: Politico - Politics | Date: 2011-07-07 16:23:24
Roscommon-South Leitrim TD Denis Naughten today lost the Fine Gael whip following his failure to support the party in a vote on the downgrading of Roscommon Hospital’s emergency department last night. Speaking after the vote, he said:
“My problem was that I had given my word based on a commitment that I had been given by the party. And I couldn’t in all honesty face the people of Roscommon and tell them that I was turning my back on them.”
The move to downgrade the emergency department has been a controversial one, not least because of commitments given by James Reilly TD (now Minister for Health) prior to the general election. In a letter addressed to the ‘People of Roscommon’, which formed part of Fine Gael’s campaign literature, Reilly wrote:
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