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I again raise with the Taoiseach - I raised this issue with the Tánaiste a number of weeks ago - the need to provide the funding for the runway extension at Waterford Airport. I have raised it several times with the Taoiseach over the past number of years. I spoke to a member of the airport board this morning, who told me there has been no contact between the Minister or Minister of State and the board. He told me a decision is needed very quickly - in fact, in the next number of weeks - on the State funding and th…

Will the Minister outline when the national review of cardiac services conducted by Professor Nolan and his team will be published? I sat in a meeting in 2019, when Deputy Simon Harris was the Minister for Health, with Oireachtas Members from across the south-east and at that point, that review had been commissioned. Here we are, in 2025, and it still has not been published. It was sitting on the previous Minister’s desk for at least nine months. I got a commitment last year that this would be published very quickl…

The problem is that I have been told that on at least three occasions. I know the report was with the previous Minister for Health for most of last year. Deputy Carroll MacNeill is a new Minister coming in but there is continuity in that this report has been sitting on the Department's desk. It is not going to be the new national cardiovascular strategy because that strategy has to look at prevention, diagnosis and rehabilitation care, whereas this report was specifically set up to look at acute services and, as th…

Both the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste previously said several times in this House that, in principle, they support 24-7 cardiac services for the south east. In fact, the current Taoiseach stood behind a banner essentially saying that his party would deliver the 24-7 cardiac service. I know that is going to require additional resources and additional consultants but we need a policy decision. I am asking Deputy Carroll MacNeill a straight question. She is now the Minister for Health. Is she committed in principle to a…

I am aware of that.

This question concerns the new national children's hospital and the preparedness of the State, the Government and CHI for what will be a decanting of staff from three hospitals into the new children's hospital. People want to be assured that the June deadline for completion will be met but also that the Minister and the Government are on top of the project, the contractor, the board and the handover because it is really important that we have as smooth a transition as possible from those three hospitals to the new …

I very much hope it is a case of 15th time lucky regarding that commitment and we see it handed over in June. I have a letter from 12 surgeons who work in the department of paediatric surgery, which I raised previously with the Government. In it, they talk about how the national model of care for paediatric surgery clearly outlines the need for 17 paediatric surgeons by 2028. It goes on to say, "we are very concerned that the recommended workforce of 17 paediatric surgeons has not been included in either the defini…

If we do not have enough paediatric surgeon consultants, it creates problems. The Minister knows we have the ongoing Nayagam review and the review by HIQA into the use of springs. There was a media report this week of an audit that was commenced in April of last year conducted by an NHS consultant on the back of very serious allegations made by whistleblowers, including that operations on children were being done purely for financial gain, that osteotomies in two of the three children's hospitals have now been susp…

If there is a draft report, the Minister should have seen it and she should be asking for it.

I echo the points made by my colleague. I visited with him a GP centre in Tallow, County Waterford. It has an application in for funding because the practice is too small and the space in the centre is not fit for purpose. We could see that ourselves when we visited. There is a need to progress funding for it. The same is true of the Cappoquin health centre. I got a phone call from the lead GP there last week. It was accepted as a GP training surgery. It has three young GPs. They have an application for funding in …

Will the Minister have a look at the one in Cappoquin?

It is over a year since we visited Lismore, so it is urgent.