Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

During the recent election campaign, the Taoiseach's party issued written reassurances on the future of Bantry General Hospital and the anaesthetist post there. In the programme for Government, however, no specific commitment was made on Bantry hospital, even though commitments were made for many more hospitals.

Almost two years ago, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, visited Bantry General Hospital with the usual fanfare to announce funding to start the build of an endoscopy unit. Two years later, not a sod has been turned or a brick laid. Were the people of west Cork misled or can the Taoiseach tell me today when the endoscopy unit promised to Bantry General Hospital will be started?

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