Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national and local importance, namely, why more than 300 more women from the west and south will have to die before BreastCheck is extended nationwide; to ask the Government if it cares that one in every two women in the west opts for a mastectomy for breast cancer compared to one in five in the east; whether the Government is concerned that another 300 women will die purely due to the failure to extend BreastCheck nationwide; whether the Government is aware that this screening service has cut the death rate by 20% to 30% in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, and in the rest of Europe and the United States; whether the Government agrees there is cancer care apartheid in the south and west; the statement of the Minister for Health and Children on 28 September that BreastCheck would be extended nationwide early next year — BreastCheck says it will be the end of next year but it cannot be certain; and whether this is acceptable.

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