Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Deborah Kelleher:

On that point about outsourcing, unless a department has a public service level agreement, obviously those patients are being outsourced to the private sector, but some centres do not have service level agreements and a significant number of patients who have a cancer diagnosis are waiting for radiotherapy and the machine is closed.