Maternity services delayed - Another fiasco on planet HSE

Over the weekend the BBC rebroadcast a documentary about Alan Bennett. In it, Bennett made a speech at the opening of a London health centre during which he sings the praises of Britain’s National Health Service. 

It is, he declares, an institution worth defending tooth-and-claw. How different his speech might have been in Dublin or Cork.

This morning we report, yet again, on a long-promised project that the HSE is, despite adequate funding, struggling to deliver. Deadlines have been missed, more are likely to be missed. The situation is so muddled, so up in a heap that the usual band-aid has been applied — send for the consultants.