Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Resources are improving services but is it perfect? Are there services in every part of the country? At this stage there are not but I have outlined why the reform programme is necessary. One of the aspects of the reform is based on the continuous advice that we are better having centres of excellence in fewer locations, where all ancillary services and all the medical and surgical facilities are available in single campuses. It is hard for people to accept that because they believe it is better the services be as close as possible to their own homes——

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