Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)

I would like to say it is impossible but I sat in the hospital for a day with the patient. When it was discovered who I was, I was asked to leave. Not until then was there an intervention. Not until then did the psychologist come to the hospital and address the situation. Then it all had to happen as an emergency because the girl was in organ failure. This is crisis. For all the good work that has been undertaken, one death of this nature would be catastrophic for all of us. We still have failed because even though she is no longer at death's door, she is back to the very same position she was in the first place.