Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major national importance as to why another 260 women who live at present in the west and south have to die needlessly under breast screening apartheid because of the failure of Government to ensure that BreastCheck reaches all women before 2009. The lives of those particular women can be saved from the terrible ravages of breast cancer if An Tánaiste and the Government would only agree to provide a temporary breast screening service, as is being offered by the Galway Clinic since 2003, pending the full roll-out of BreastCheck to the south and west by 2009.

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