Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).

 

I refer to the mid-west because the Minister of State and I are familiar with that region. There will also be satellite hospitals, such as St. John's Hospital in Limerick, Ennis General Hospital and Nenagh General Hospital. If the information available to me is accurate, the hospitals in Ennis and Nenagh will be downgraded from general acute hospitals to some sort of satellite hospitals. They may be day hospitals and it is possible that they will be driven by nurses. I do not know how the theatres currently in use at Nenagh General Hospital will be used under the new system. Will all consultants leave Nenagh and be relocated in Limerick? I suspect that they will. What will be the relationship between Nenagh and Limerick?

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