Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
Sure, and the committee has a responsibility to pursue that line with the new Taoiseach. We will probably decide to do so.
I want to ask about the question of the shortage of radiation therapists. The witnesses listed a number of things that need to be done. What is the situation with the number of training places at the moment? Short-term measures can be taken, such as people coming from abroad, but we need to produce adequate numbers ourselves. Do we know what the numbers are? Have they increased over the years? Where exactly is the problem? Is it that there are not sufficient places? Will the witnesses speak a bit about that?
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