114. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the decision to again announce that St. Vincent’s University Hospital will no longer be a designated primary percutaneous coronary intervention centre for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction patients; that such patients should no longer be transported to St. Vincent’s University Hospital but to St. James's Hospital or the Mater Hospital; the way such patients from County Wicklow and south Dublin will now be dealt with; the way this decision was announced 48 hours before it came into effect; the way decisions are communicated to front-line workers and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15954/15]

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114. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the decision to again announce that St. Vincent’s University Hospital will no longer be a designated primary percutaneous coronary intervention centre for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction patients; that such patients should no longer be transported to St. Vincent’s University Hospital but to St. James's Hospital or the Mater Hospital; the way such patients from County Wicklow and south Dublin will now be dealt with; the way this decision was announced 48 hours before it came into effect; the way decisions are communicated to front-line workers and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15954/15]

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