Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that there are huge resourcing issues but the issue I am raising concerns the needs of the area in respect of the population, the acuity of patients presenting at UHL and the numbers presenting. It seems there is money for everything now and that, regardless of the problem, the Government says it will just write a cheque.

I was surprised that approach, unfortunately, was not taken to University Hospital Limerick, UHL, because it is taken to almost every other problem the Government faces. If money were no object, and in this time of inflationary cycles it is increasingly becoming no object, do the needs of the region point to the requirement of a properly equipped, properly resourced and properly staffed model 3 hospital in the region in addition to UHL campus in Dooradoyle?