David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

“No” is the answer. I have a number of substantive questions for Dr. Herity now. I am trying to contextualise the report’s recommendations. Please forgive me if I oversimplify them and if I am wrong in my analysis of the report, Dr. Herity can correct me.

If I am reading this right, from Dr. Herity’s report and his opening statement, he quite rightly makes a distinction between patients who are coming in for planned work and emergency work. We have one lab in University Hospital Waterford. At the moment it does emergency work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and planned work as it can. Dr. Herity recommended that the hospital should focus on planned work almost entirely and that emergency work should be done in Cork. Essentially, all emergency patients in the south east should, at any time of the day or any day of the week, go to Cork or to Dublin. That was his recommendation. Would that be a fair summation?