Latest: Simon Harris says second cath lab in Waterford 'not justified'; Halligan 'weighing up options'

Update 3.05pm: The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has outlined the recommendations by a clinical review of cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford which include adding eight hours of procedures each week for the catheterisation laboratory at the hospital.

Latest: Simon Harris says second cath lab in Waterford 'not justified'; Halligan 'weighing up options'

Update 3.05pm: The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has outlined the recommendations by a clinical review of cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford which include adding eight hours of procedures each week for the catheterisation laboratory at the hospital.

Mr Harris has said that the review by Dr Niall Herity has "made clear recommendations" that a second cardiac cath lab at UHW is "not justified and I accept this".

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