Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is absolutely so and I look forward to the Minister progressing this. I have a question later on Belmullet Hospital in the same vein . It is a superb hospital with a fantastic standard and history of care. With the appropriate capital investment and working with local GPs in Erris it could do an awful lot more. However, HSE management at national level does not seem to get that. Estate management at national level does not seem to get the very important network of district hospitals in Ballina, Belmullet and Swinford around Mayo University Hospital. The Minister does and I look forward to progressing the development of these hospitals with him in the coming weeks - I am not even going to say months - because we need to move on the plans for Ballina and Belmullet in 2022 and no later.

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