Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does that not tell us something? If we are to recruit more people into the health service based on an independent clinical report, that is what we should follow. We have an independent report done by an eminent professor. The people of the south east do not agree with it in respect of the 24-7 provision but to decouple that issue, he referred to the existing cath lab having better equipment and opening longer. That is surely something these people would welcome and the Deputy has made that point. It is a source of frustration that the recruitment process has not progressed satisfactorily and I have asked the HSE to talk to the hospital and outline why that is the case.

I am giving the issue of a modular lab serious consideration. I see the logic in it but it is not as quite as straightforward as the Deputy, understandably, presented it on behalf of his constituents.