John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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This is incredible and Deputy Cullinane is correct. It is incredible to think there would be people in other parts of the south east - for example, in Clonmel, Wexford, Kilkenny and so on - that Dr. Herity would have known would have been coming to perform procedures in University Hospital Waterford and would have been directed by the consultants there. It is also incredible that Dr. Herity waited for somebody in University Hospital Waterford to tell him to go and see them or that he wanted the consultants there to bring representatives from those areas to which I refer. Surely he would have been told by the HSE that the hospital was being serviced from Clonmel, Wexford and other areas. I would have thought that Dr. Herity would have said that he wanted to hear what those consultants are saying. The statement he made is outrageous, namely, that he did not think it appropriate or that he waited for somebody to tell him to meet consultants he should have met.

The south east is not Waterford. This is very important. Dr. Herity met the consultants in Waterford. It is a hospital representing the south east and not Waterford. Dr. Herity did not meet anybody else outside Waterford.