Manus Boyle (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask for the Minister for Health to come in to the House. The six new surgical centres she has announced are great news. She is giving out two to Dublin, one to Cork, and one each to Galway, Waterford and Limerick. They will deal with 10,000 surgical appointments a year and 18,000 outpatients.

Once again, Donegal and the north west have not featured in this. Donegal is such a big county, where someone can be two hours away from the major hospital in Letterkenny. We need to get the Minister to revisit this and to give Donegal one of the new surgical health facilities moving forward to help the whole north west region.