Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This will be continued on a piecemeal basis with units for Roscommon, Galway, Mayo, Clare and Westmeath all separately trying to have meetings with management of Galway University Hospital rather than the NTA assisting and spearheading the process. It is the same for other hospitals across the country. It will not be viable to run a boss from County Roscommon to appointments in Galway. It would be viable, however, to run a service from some parts of east Mayo through Roscommon into Westmeath, County Galway and finally into Galway city for these appointments. That type of co-ordination can only happen at a national level. It cannot happen on a piecemeal approach at county level.