John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Over a period of four years, 25 different locums have been in and out of Letterkenny hospital. It is probably the only hospital in Europe where there is one consultant in the haematology unit, where there are periods where the consultant was out sick and there was no consultant cover, and where the cost of all of this could have been dealt with better had they had the appropriate person appointed given that over a five year period the amount of work being done in the hospital tripled. What planning goes into something like that in the context of attempting to save money rather than use an agency to bring in locums, etc.? Is this a particular issue in Letterkenny?