Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Would the witnesses be prepared to comment in broad brushstrokes about the extra resources that would be needed to ensure the situation gets better rather than worse as a result of the centralisation of trauma services at Cork University Hospital? I put it to them that in the absence of massive extra resources being put into Cork University Hospital, such a move would almost certainly result in a disimprovement in services. Can they comment on the level of resources that might be needed to ensure there would not be a disimprovement in services in the event of all the throughput from Mercy University Hospital being put into Cork University Hospital, which already has overcrowding and other problems?