Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

Yes, but we need all our hospitals to operate to best practice if we are to get the best possible care for our patients.

If Deputy Coonan sends me the details of the complaint concerning the family he raised, I will investigate it.

I must correct him on another matter. Limerick hospital is not a centre of excellence but a specialist centre. We want everywhere to be a centre of excellence and our health care system to operate the excellent standards we are entitled to expect, whether it is a GP's practice, a community long-term care facility or an acute hospital.

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