Question from Deputy Mattie McGrath - PQ 12707-26

To ask the Minister for Health the detailed breakdown by whole-time equivalent number of the various clinical specialties that provide staff and service to the cardiac cath labs in University Hospital Waterford (highlight the number of interventional cardiologists presently in position at UHW as well as the number of working hours they are contracted to UHW service each week. Can the report also detail the number of whole-time cardiac physiologists, cardiac radiographers, cardiac technicians, and cardiac nurses assigned to the UHW cath lab suite during operational hours on a Monday to Friday schedule and separately for the present Saturday and Sunday schedule?); and if she will make a statement on the matter.