David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise with the Tánaiste the issue of cardiac services for the south east. As he will know, I have been campaigning with others in the Oireachtas on this issue for a long number of years. Oireachtas Members in the south east met with the Minister for Health a long number of months ago. At that meeting, we were promised that the national review into cardiac services was going to be published within days. That has not happened. We were also promised that by March, primary percutaneous coronary intervention emergency services would be extended to the hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday and that they would be further extended to seven days a week. That has not happened on time. We need an urgency to be brought to this issue. I do not know what has happened and why the commitments that were made have not been delivered, but it is a really important issue, as the Tánaiste knows. I want to see full 24-7 emergency cardiac services available to people in the south east in the future. A stepping stone on the way to get there is to extend the service to the hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Could the Tánaiste tell me when that will happen?

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