Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I fully accept the Deputy's point. We will bring the review to Government imminently and it will then be published. The review kicked off after the focus on University Hospital Waterford. That was the genesis of it. I thank Professor Nolan and his team for their work. When the Deputy sees the report he will see it is a comprehensive piece of work. What Professor Nolan and his team have done goes well beyond where 24-7 care should be. They did the work around cardiovascular diseases. As the Deputy will be aware, more than one in four deaths in Ireland is caused by cardiovascular disease. The report Professor Nolan has authored speaks to a lot of issues raised by the Deputy. It looks not only at acute care but also cardiovascular disease across the country. That is why we have put this package together. We have funding for the report, the stroke strategy, the Irish Heart Foundation and GPs as well. That element of this week's budget was intended to say we would apply funding right across the board, be it for GPs, community care, diagnostics or acute care.

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