It is fine to make promises before an election, but it is wrong that people who are very ill should have to travel to Dublin from Waterford, south Kilkenny and the Minister of State's home city of Limerick, where people are pressing for radiotherapy facilities. Many difficulties are faced by the families of people who have to travel to and from Dublin, or pay to stay there, for two or three minutes' treatment per day. It is traumatic for all concerned that people who are ill have to travel great distances.