Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the case of a seven-year-old girl from Tralee who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer last July, seven days after her seventh birthday. She has been to Crumlin until Easter of this year and now is in shared maintenance care between Mercy University Hospital in Cork and University Hospital Kerry. She gets bloods in Kerry. She has to have her Hickman port dressed quickly and her mother, Lorraine, administers chemo three times per week. It is four chemos, plus bloods and dressings, which is physically and mentally very draining for her family. Will the Minister provide facilities for paediatric oncology maintenance in University Hospital Kerry, which will give more co-ordinated care for her? I know €81 million was returned to the HSE last year. Could that be used to provide that service?

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