Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can only go on what I am told by the hospital because I am not involved in the day-to-day running of the facility or the recruitment of staff there. I am advised by the hospital that there was a difficulty in recruiting staff and that this is the reason the new machine did not open until April 2015 and that it is now putting together a business case to open the second machine. With two machines, there is an argument for doing this either way. It may actually make more sense for the hospital to use the new, more modern scanner for longer hours, and to run it at night and at weekends, rather than running a new machine and an old machine from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and only using one machine on an on-call basis. As I said, the hospital is putting together the business case for additional staff which, no doubt, it will submit to the hospital group and up the line from there.

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