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

Dr. Niamh Murphy:

Yes. It is absolutely mad spending that amount of money that could be invested in imaging centres in the public sector and then encouraging trainees to come back to take up posts and getting the best consultants, cardiologists back into the unit. Whereas if all the money is being invested in the private hospital, it just does not make sense for us-----