Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Taoiseach is well aware, the provision of cardiology services in Waterford is time-sensitive. That means that from nine to five, Monday to Friday, we have a cath lab that is operational. It also means that from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. the following day there is no service. There is no service either at the weekend. On Saturday Mr. Thomas Power who had been married for 12 months and whose wife is expecting their first baby presented in pain at University Hospital Waterford in blazing sunshine. He was transferred to Cork University Hospital but only got as far as Dungarvan where he died of a cardiac arrest. The consultant told his sister that if he had been attended to in a cath lab, he would still be alive. We cannot continue any longer to be classed as second-class citizens in Waterford and the south east. A man has died.

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