John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That brings our discussions to a close. In closing the meeting and arising from Deputy Dowds's request, I ask that the committee be sent a profile of both hospitals in respect of patient throughput and numbers and so on, to help members to understand the volume of work and outturn in respect of operations and so on. Earlier, I mentioned correspondence I had received and which I will forward to the witnesses. I ask them to provide the committee with a comprehensive response to the issues raised because I am concerned about them. I ask the board of St. Vincent's to give priority to dealing with it. Perhaps the committee will get a progress report at the end of March to understand what progress has been made on the various issues, as well as the outcome of those discussions.