Dáil debates

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed)

 

7:00 pm

Photo of Jackie Healy-RaeJackie Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)

The specialist centres should have triple assessment. Kerry General Hospital already has triple assessment and it sees 950 women presenting for the first time with a breast lump each year. Between those new cases and the follow-up appointments, approximately 2,400 women a year attend the breast clinic in Kerry General Hospital. Fine Gael's Private Members' motion ignores the cancer services in Kerry General Hospital.

Fine Gael has made a blunder and it is trying to put a patch on it like a tube in a bicycle. Do the Members sitting below me realise——

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