Following the leaking of the draft report of the national task force on medical manpower last weekend, there is concern and anger in Ballinasloe, County Galway, among the staff and those who have had contact with the hospital in the past. The terms of reference of the task force clearly indicate concern in that it has to co-ordinate the implementation of a new model of hospital service delivery. Effectively, what it means is the downgrading of Portiuncula Hospital to associate hospital status. That is unacceptable, given that it is only 12 months since some Members here and the Western Health Board acquired the hospital from the Franciscan Sisters. It is also unacceptable that the chief executive officer of the Western Health Board, Dr. Sheelagh Ryan, and her senior officer, the regional manager for acute services, are both on this task force. It is unacceptable in any shape or form, including that of the dual mandate, that the chief executive officer charged with the delivery of the service on behalf of the Minister within the Western Health Board in which this hospital is located can comfortably sit on a task force whose remit is clearly to rationalise and downgrade the hospital.