Seanad debates
Wednesday, 22 October 2003
National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements.
To pretend every hospital in the country can have everything is not what we are talking about. My grumbles with the Hanly report do not concern where things should be, because we could argue about this forever, but about sequencing, to use a phrase out of the context in which it has been used for the past fortnight. It would be possible to persuade people who fear they will lose services they have enjoyed of the logic of having centres of excellence if they saw a superb service developed elsewhere first. At the risk of falling out of favour with Deputy Sherlock, I contend that the people in Mallow could be persuaded if they had a centre of excellence with no queues or problems, within a reasonable distance and which could be reached on a particularly good road. This is what the Hanly report is about.
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