Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask the Taoiseach about the plan to reform the trauma care services in this country. I understand we will have two major trauma hospitals - one in Dublin and one in Cork. I accept we cannot have 26 hospitals giving the service throughout the country as we have now, but it is a major mistake - I do not know what the Taoiseach thinks - that we will not have a major trauma hospital in the west and north west of the country, which has a population of 750,000. We should have a major trauma centre in Galway at least. What is the Taoiseach's opinion of that? Does he agree that we should have three major trauma hospitals and just not the two?

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