Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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It absolutely does for the people of the region. There are 600,000 people, as I said, within an hour of that hospital.

I will stay on that particular area before I go to more generalised questions. The 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. cardiac service across seven days of the week, as we know, is an extremely important topic in Waterford. I had reason to be glad of the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. service over Christmas rather than the 6 p.m. cut-off that was there previously. Deputy McAuliffe spoke a lot about funded and unfunded posts. Is the recruitment we need to move to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven day a week service, funded? Will that happen?