Health Services
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-03
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

I will not do the topic justice here. There has been a lot of careful thinking. We will publish the report and allow everybody to look at it in the round. The Government has progressed substantially in terms of the second cath lab in Waterford University Hospital. As the Deputy will be aware, the second cath lab opened in September of last year. That was an important milestone.
The opening hours of the first cath lab were extended the year before that from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Friday. We are going further than that. Recruitment is now in process for the provision of full staffing to complement the existing services so that the opening hours of the cath lab will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days per week.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-03