Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We looked at Barrington's hospital but the operational view of the HSE was that the quickest way to do it was to proceed with the identified site rather than trying to split teams between setting up a temporary solution and the permanent facility that we want.

On the elective hospitals, I hear loud and clear the people in Limerick loud and clear when they say there is an elective hospital in Cork, another in Galway and two in Dublin and they should have one as well. The elective hospitals are national hospitals. They happen to be located in those four areas but doctors, surgeons and proceduralists in the mid-west, in Limerick, will have full access and full referring rights to the regional hospitals.