Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 February 2003

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.

 

Senator Henry mentioned the regionalisation of radiotherapy services. Recent leaks suggest that the facilities in Dublin, Cork and Galway will be extended and that services will be provided in those locations only. I hope these rumours are incorrect because every Fianna Fáil politician in Waterford and the south-east vowed during the general election campaign that a radiotherapy unit would be provided at Waterford Regional Hospital within three years. Movement is needed now if this promise is to be kept because it will take two or three years to put linear accelerators in place and to establish a full radiotherapy unit.

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