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.