A man died in Mayo after medical technology, including sleep apnoea equipment, stopped working during Storm Éowyn.
Sinn Féin TD for Mayo Rose Conway-Walsh told the Dáil last night that she was informed of the death by a constituent.
Deputy Conway-Walsh was on Midwest Radio yesterday morning, and said she was frightened all week that something was going to happen, that somebody was going to die as a result of this in Mayo.
She said very shortly after her radio interview yesterday somebody from our own constituency rang her to describe to her how the equipment that his father was using couldn’t be used – the mattress, the sleep apnoea, the several other pieces of equipment – they couldn’t be (used).
When he went then to take his father to the doctor, he died in front of him.
And that is the tragedy of it, and that is how urgent this is concluded Deputy Conway Walsh.
She has been giving more details to Midwest News this morning.
