Cork North Central Workers’ Party candidate, Councillor Ted Tynan, has said that election candidates in the constituency should fight for the retention and development of the existing Mercy & Orthopaedic Hospitals instead of rowing over a hospital that may never be built.
Cllr. Tynan said that the spat between Labour and Fine Gael candidates over the location of a possible new hospital was academic as there are two hospitals of long standing in the city which are under threat. He said that candidates were debating the merits of two sites which may never be developed instead of fighting to keep the Mercy & Orthopaedic hospitals fully open.
“The people of Cork, and of Cork North Central in particular, want to keep the hospital services that they have and which have served them well over many, many years. They want to see those hospitals being modernised and improved and are not interested in a political circus over what might happen when the current recession is over, which is likely to be a very long time. There is plenty of room to build on the Orthopaedic site but it will be lost to developers if people don’t stand together now and fight for it”, said Cllr. Tynan.
