Dr. Colm Henry:

The Senator will recall, I am sure, that the national cancer strategy laid down where the cancer centres would be. There are eight centres and Letterkenny has special status for breast cancer. That was a function of Government policy at the time. The current policy is to have those eight centres, with Donegal having special status for breast cancer. It is onerous. There are other services established in Altnagelvin Hospital to try to minimise the challenges people with cancer face in Donegal, notably for radiotherapy, in the Altnagelvin centre. I recognise the long journey Galway but, as I said, our job in the HSE is to implement a strategy that directs where those centres are.