Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government will have to receive and assess the formal business case being put by the group in respect of the hospital. The point the Deputy made is not irrelevant by any means. I had a meeting with a senior medical person yesterday who told me that on many occasions there are cancellations of complex operations in hospitals. This means that a consultant and his or her team are ready to carry out an operation, however complex it might be, and they discover that it has suddenly been cancelled because a bed is not available. Who is responsible for this? The waste of public money, not to mind the stress on the patient involved, speaks for itself.

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