There are no future plans for a Model 3 hospital in Nenagh or Ennis.
“We’re in Nenagh. There are less than 60 beds in the hospital. There‘s a limited number of specialities.
“If you go into a hospital, a small hospital that doesn’t have all the specialties, and maybe you need one of those specialties, maybe you need neurology and it’s not there, or cardiology and it’s not there, whatever it may be, now you’re in trouble because now they have to get you to a bigger hospital anyway, and time matters.
“To do that, you’d be talking about going from a 60-bed hospital to a 400-bed hospital. That’s not a question of adding a few doctors or adding a few nurses.“