Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

I do not understand how co-locating public and private hospitals on the same site with different doctors will change it. However, I do not have time to deal with that issue today.

On the list of hospitals which have been told they must cease immediately the provision of cancer treatment services, will extra resources be made available to the so-called centres of excellence in this respect? For example, a general surgeon who performs a small number of cancer related operations cannot be transferred to a centre of excellence. Will the Minister clarify that the required resources will be made available and that those patients currently being treated in the smaller hospitals will have access to services?

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