Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

If I want Deputy Cowley's assistance, I will call upon him. The appalling discrepancies in cancer treatment are an indictment of the Government's programme to provide a world class health service. The varying rates of survival, indicated in the report, will frighten many. The survival rates for breast cancer in the north east stand at 72.3%, 73% in the mid-west and 73.5% in the south east. Surgical services are widely unavailable in the regions while the availability of chemotherapy and radiotherapy leaves much to be desired.

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