Hospital Motion at Council

I had a full council meeting to attend this evening. I had tabled a motion calling on the Council to appeal to the Minister for more funds for the hospital. The catalogue of problems we have seen over the last few months is very concerning. It was also revealed this week that the hospital funding black hole has widened from £5m to £6.5m. I do not criticise the hospital directly because the staff are doing wonderful work. But there is something wrong when we have seen over 100% extra funding pumped into the hospital since 1997 and yet it still has a crisis in Winter over a lack of beds.