On the broader National Parks and Wildlife Service, I can tell the Deputy that before this Government is finished, that will be well and truly enhanced in terms of resources and its status within the overall framework of Government infrastructure on the issue of biodiversity. A couple of weeks ago the Taoiseach agreed with me here that the mid-west needed an elective hospital given the massive overcrowding and that University Hospital Limerick, UHL, is simply too small.
Does the Taoiseach believe it should go ahead like that or, given what we have come through collectively in this House as part of Sláintecare, that the elective hospital in question should be publicly built, publicly owned and based at one of the health campuses within the mid-west, such as St. I will ask the Taoiseach about the Stardust inquests.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Jack Chambers and Marc Ó Cathasaigh; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Michael Healy-Rae.
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