Ms Deborah Kelleher:

I thank the Deputy. As things currently stand, we have a 25% to 30% shortage of radiation therapists nationally, across the five public radiotherapy centres. That has resulted in closed cancer treatment machines, and they are closed as we sit here today. We have four closed currently. We have three CT scanners closed currently. That means that any new posts we would have gotten are now obsolete, so that is going to exacerbate the current situation. Cancer patients are not receiving radiotherapy treatment on those treatment machines because there are insufficient radiation therapists.