Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

We have nothing short of an unprecedented crisis at the CUH. Last week I questioned the removal of the breast cancer unit from the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital to the CUH. The question has been answered tonight. There has been a litany of mismanagement at CUH over the past three years, in respect of referral rates to the national treatment purchase fund, which are the worst in the country, the opening of the maternity unit, the gynaecological services and an overdeveloped, inefficiently run campus. It is proposed to place a co-located hospital on the site. Serious questions must be asked. The Minister has abdicated her responsibilities on managing the health service through the HSE and the managers are now abdicating their responsibilities, apparent by their removal from the operation of the hospital itself.

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