Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept that and I fully accept that the HSE in Cork has done a huge amount of work in improving all the community hospitals but I am concerned about how fast we can deliver the replacements needed. We also need to remember that the population has increased by more than 170,000, from 410,000 to 580,000 in Cork alone. There is a large demand there. The question is how we respond to meet the demand and how fast can we deliver on it.