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

I will ask the Minister for Health to provide the Deputy with a detailed note on the matter. On the face of it, we should bear in mind what an X-ray is. It exposes patients and others to radiation, which nobody does without good reason. X-rays should only be ordered by doctors and specialist nurses qualified to do so. Chiropractors are practitioners of a form of alternative medicine and I would have concerns about them being able to prescribe exposure of patients to radiation.

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