Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

Let us be clear that she still does not have sufficient funding to implement the proposals outlined in the programme for Government. On the broader issue of the provision of primary care, at last week's committee meeting the Minister spoke about a smaller hospital strategy. Will the small hospital strategy and urgent care units be part and parcel of primary care - in other words to keep people out of acute hospitals - or will we have another strategy with regard to the smaller hospitals on top of the primary care strategy? That does not seem to fit into the overall measures proposed in the reconfiguration, some of which we support and many of which we do not.

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