Seanad debates
Wednesday, 23 October 2002
Health Services: Motion.
We must remember what we know about the health service. The rural GP system is falling apart because young people will not work in single GP practices any more, while the availability of medical cards has dropped dramatically and people are suffering greatly as a result. People on quite small incomes who have to pay out €65 every month are suffering from hardship. We know, because the Minister for Health and Children told me, that the BreastCheck scheme is essentially on the long finger in terms of being extended to the rest of the country. He waffled to me of a two and a half year roll out time in Cork and could not announce when he was going to start planning for that. Presumably, we will have an announcement about the complete roll out of the BreastCheck service before the next election.
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