3 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Well Woman Centre has been unable to recruit a doctor to work in its new centre in Athlone, County Westmeath, opened in joint partnership with the Midland Health Board in April 1996; his views on the fact that the difficulties experienced have resulted from the behaviour of other doctors in the area, and that doctors are fearful if they work in the Well Woman Centre that they will be unable to get any other work within the Midland Health Board area; whether his attention has further been drawn to the fact that consultants in Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway, have been told that if they take referrals from the Well Woman Centre, general practitioners will not refer private patients to them; his views on the fact that as a consequence of this it has been announced that the new centre is to close; if he will intervene and resolve this difficulty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19944/97]

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3 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Well Woman Centre has been unable to recruit a doctor to work in its new centre in Athlone, County Westmeath, opened in joint partnership with the Midland Health Board in April 1996; his views on the fact that the difficulties experienced have resulted from the behaviour of other doctors in the area, and that doctors are fearful if they work in the Well Woman Centre that they will be unable to get any other work within the Midland Health Board area; whether his attention has further been drawn to the fact that consultants in Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway, have been told that if they take referrals from the Well Woman Centre, general practitioners will not refer private patients to them; his views on the fact that as a consequence of this it has been announced that the new centre is to close; if he will intervene and resolve this difficulty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19944/97]

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