Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The rest of the facilities are urgently needed. Mr. Gloster knows that. I know that. The people who are the potential patients of that hospital know that as well.

I will make another point. I had need to access emergency treatment recently and I was really impressed with the treatment in a public hospital. I drove in and was attended to - not immediately, as there were between 20 and 30 people waiting and obviously everybody cannot be dealt with at the same time. There were some people who were obviously in need of urgent treatment and they were dealt with in good order. There were other people who, to external appearances, were less obviously in need of treatment. However, they were all attended to. All the tests were done, all the bloods taken and ECGs done. They were very thorough. I hope the doctors did not have to wait for the results because it used to be a real bugbear that you would have to wait a couple of weeks for the results. I attended a major hospital in Dublin and I would give it ten out of ten.