Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland

9:00 am

Ms Lyndsey O'Leary:

We know how many exposures take place per year. The HSE did an audit on us in 2011. It found that 3,000 X-rays were taken by chiropractors in Ireland. If that is compared with some information I got this morning to the effect that 2 million X-rays are taken per year in Ireland, we find that 3,000 is 0.0015% of the total. It is not as though we are X-raying every patient who comes through the door. That was a HSE audit in 2011.