Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society

9:30 am

Professor Brendan McAdam:

There are national services in the Mater and Tallaght hospitals for screening for specific heritable cardiac arrhythmic diseases in particular.

Again, they are very underfunded. It is very stretched and there are long waiting lists. That has to be part of a blueprint for a national strategy all across the country. You should not have to travel from Kerry to get access to those services, which are quite specialised in Dublin.