Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)

Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that breast cancer is a terrible killer, health care apartheid exists here and that 260 more women will die needlessly in the west and south before BreastCheck is up and running; if she will take up the offer made by the Galway Clinic on 11 February 2003 to provide a BreastCheck service until a unit is built in Galway; if she cannot fast-track BreastCheck before 2007, will she allow the Galway Clinic to provide a breast screening service in the meantime to save these 260 women's valuable lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15108/06]

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