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

Photo of John CumminsJohn Cummins (Fine Gael)
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Senator Kyne sends his apologies. I want to take up the point about data. Data is being collected. What is the data that is not being collected compared to our European peers? I am from Waterford and I have seen data on primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, numbers for University Hospital Waterford, UHW; Cork University Hospital, CUH; Beaumont Hospital and St. Vincents University Hospital and, therefore, data is being collected.

The impression being given is there is no data. There is data. What is the data that is not being collected?