The report has been branded as 'utterly inadequate' by a local Plaid spokesman.
John Dixon, the party's Assembly candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, said this week: "This report raises more questions than it answers. Some New Labour politicians have rushed to claim that it means that Withybush is saved, but that is simply not what the report says, and it is misleading in the extreme to interpret it in that way. All that the report has said is that consultation will continue; they have given no reassurances whatsoever.
"As Chris Overton, of SWAT, said, this is just a ploy. It smacks of political manoeuvrings by a New Labour government desperate to avoid having the subject debated during the forthcoming election campaign.
"Before anyone can start welcoming the report or claiming that Withybush is safe, we need absolute cast-iron guarantees that there will be no degradation of services at Withybush whilst the so- called 'consultation' continues, no creeping transfers of services by stealth, no increases in unfilled posts - in short no attempts to implement by the back door the proposals which local opinion has so clearly rejected. Until these assurances are given - and underwritten by the Health Minister in the Assembly government - no-one should believe that the battle is over."