Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I ask the Ceann Comhairle to allow me make this point. Too often, the impression is left hanging that everything is wrong in the health service. The reality is that there are 5,000 people alive and well today who would have suffered perhaps fatal heart attacks if we had not implemented strategic changes in the area of treatment for heart disease, the other great killer. Major developments and improvements are taking place in this regard.

Professor Keane's role is to redirect resources to these centres, to ensure that what happened in Portlaoise——

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