Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

Does the Tánaiste agree that the consultant surgeons wrote to the Health Service Executive because they had concerns about patient safety and because the steering group's report was not working? The people on the steering group had their hands tied. The consultant surgeons were asked to implement a configuration of services that was presented to them by the then chief executive officer. As the consultants have made it clear to us that the configuration in question is not working, we will have to address the matter by examining it again. Further deaths will occur if we do not do so.

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