Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that Sligo is quite a distance from both Derry and Galway. As is always the case with specialist services, one has to balance the ideal of having it near everyone with the reality that, in order to maintain a service to a standard of safety and to staff it, there needs to be a critical mass of population. Such a service would tend to have approximately four centres in a country the size of ours.

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