Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 April 2003

Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).

 

I am not particularly into passing the buck to the Minister for Finance for every shortcoming in the health service. It is facile to say more money would solve the problem. There is no point in prioritising unless one realises some things are not priorities. This issue is of sufficient priority to be ordered within the health service. It is a cop-out to say we must get more money to enable us to do this. It is an important service which deeply affects the lives of so many people, families and communities. There will never be easy answers. There will always be trade-offs between excess and quality of service. The best we can do is ensure people have access to high quality services. That is a price worth paying. I wish the Minister of State well and thank him for coming to the House today.

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