Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 February 2003

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.

 

I want to address issues. When Senator O'Meara referred to the need for mammography services in Nenagh and elsewhere she did not advocate that every town in the country should be able to provide some kind of health service. We know that is not possible. Her point was that two towns of approximately the same size – Nenagh and Ennis – required the replacement of mammography equipment. The authorities in Nenagh were informed that this could not be done because of the dangers involved. There may be a technical argument in favour of that approach. By contrast, the authorities in Ennis were given a different answer, probably because the then Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Deputy de Valera, was considered to be a more dangerous adversary than the Minister for Defence.

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