153. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the rationale for the decision for the announcement that St. Vincent's University Hospital, SVUH, will no longer be a designated primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, centre for ST, elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI, patients, identified STEMI patients should no longer be transported to SVUH but the next PPCI centre; the way STEMI patients from County Wicklow and south Dublin will now be dealt with; the way this decision was announced 24 hours before it became effective; the way decisions are communicated to front-line workers and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43520/14]

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153. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the rationale for the decision for the announcement that St. Vincent's University Hospital, SVUH, will no longer be a designated primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, centre for ST, elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI, patients, identified STEMI patients should no longer be transported to SVUH but the next PPCI centre; the way STEMI patients from County Wicklow and south Dublin will now be dealt with; the way this decision was announced 24 hours before it became effective; the way decisions are communicated to front-line workers and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43520/14]

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