David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On a related issue which is relevant to the previous question, there is to be a national review of cardiac services. The Minister for Health has provided Oireachtas Members with a document which sets out the background, the policy context, the terms of reference, the methodology and the structure of the review team which will be on this national review. I have concerns about the terms of reference. The Taoiseach will be aware that this is a big issue for patients in the south east. It talks about populations being based on the hospital groups and the regions that make up the hospital groups rather than the regions. My question is, what scrutiny will there be of these terms of references? Will it be scrutinised by the Joint Committee on Health? Will there be statements in this House? This is a big issue. It is of such importance to the people in the south east and elsewhere that we need to feed into those terms of reference. If the Taoiseach cannot answer now, I ask that he come back to me with a response on when or how Oireachtas Members will have an input into the terms of reference.

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