Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

In 2006, 57 surgical procedures were carried out in Sligo. A total of 44 patients from Sligo got breast cancer, 21 patients from Leitrim got breast cancer and 65 patients from Donegal got breast cancer. Those are the data on which we depend. It is not a debate about numbers; it is a debate about quality.

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