Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is still sitting in a public private partnership, which has still not been approved. Perhaps the Minister might approve that. Perhaps he might like to go down to the hospital and explain why it was cut out of the €650 million in capital funding given to the other eight model 4 hospitals last year. Perhaps he might answer the question of why in a decade that hospital received just one third of all the capital funding given to each of the other eight model 4 hospitals. The Minister can shake his head and think he has heard all this before, but he has not. I can promise him that his colleague in the constituency will be hearing about this when he stands on the doorsteps. People in Waterford and the south east are growing tired. After all the talk in this House of trying to improve cardiac services, we still do not even have a seven-day emergency heart attack service in University Hospital Waterford. This is the only region in the country without such a service. To be frank, this is what it looks like to me and I did not hear anything in his response to change this view.

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