Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am going to ask about a local issue now. I am not asking about my own locality but about Sligo. In 2006, Sligo was deemed not to be one of the centres of excellence. This is causing a lot of problems for people, particularly in Donegal. They are having to travel very long distances to Galway. Many are very sick and some are old. Nobody who needs need major surgery has an issue with travelling to Galway. It is the weekly, or sometimes daily, trips for treatments like radiotherapy and chemotherapy that are causing the difficulty. A lot of people believe that not setting up a treatment centre, as distinct from a surgical centre, in Sligo in 2006 was a mistake. They believe it should be considered going forward. Are there any plans to analyse that or to set something like that up?