275. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the urgent care clinic for children at Connolly Hospital, open since July 2019, and designed as a walk-in clinic to treat children with emergent illness and injury as its title implies for example sprains, vomiting, minor cuts, mild asthma and so on and with the purpose of seeing 25,000 patients per year in addition to 17,000 outpatient appointments, appears set to operate on an appointment-only basis, though 'urgent' care need of a child, by its nature, cannot be foreseen; the plans his Department has to prevent or correct this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9415/23]

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275. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the urgent care clinic for children at Connolly Hospital, open since July 2019, and designed as a walk-in clinic to treat children with emergent illness and injury as its title implies for example sprains, vomiting, minor cuts, mild asthma and so on and with the purpose of seeing 25,000 patients per year in addition to 17,000 outpatient appointments, appears set to operate on an appointment-only basis, though 'urgent' care need of a child, by its nature, cannot be foreseen; the plans his Department has to prevent or correct this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9415/23]

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