John Paul Phelan (Fine Gael)

——from a letter written last week by the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Killeen, who is a Fianna Fáil Deputy for Clare, that the report will be implemented. Last Friday evening I attended a public meeting in Kilkenny between consultants in St. Luke's General Hospital and the public representatives in Carlow and Kilkenny-——