Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion
2:00 am
Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:
Part of that delay was due to the Coru process. I gather that the process has been tightened up and that there is a significant reduction in the time gap for registration.
The equipment replacement programme is critically important. It highlights one of the issues that the Chair mentioned about multi-annual funding. There should probably be a multi-annual process for equipment replacement because St. Luke’s radiation oncology network has 14 machines that need to be replaced. Even on an international scale, it will be a major project to do that on an active site. I know it has begun, but it is a critical process that we need to-----
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