Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Regarding the wider position, the director of clinical care has a programme head in respect of radiology, Professor Ó Laoide, the dean of the faculty of radiology and a foremost clinician in this area, and he will have to work with him in respect of issues that arise out of this but the first and primary focus is about those X-rays that are not cleared that must now be examined by radiologists, that are being examined by an increased number of people who have been put in for that purpose.

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