Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)

Planning is proceeding to achieve this consolidation by early 2009.

The decision to consolidate the symptomatic breast service provided by CUH and South Infirmary for the southern region into the designated cancer centre at CUH is consistent with the national programme for the centralisation of breast cancer services in eight designated specialist centres. The relocation of the South Infirmary symptomatic breast service to CUH will create a critical mass of specialists of all oncology disciplines on a single geographic site.

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