Seanad debates

Tuesday, 13 May 2003

A point made recently in the debate on cancer services is that half the beds in St. James's hospital are occupied by people with smoking-related illnesses. What are we doing to change that? The cost to the public purse of smoking-related illness is huge. The cost to the health service of alcohol-related illnesses is also exceptionally high. Senator O'Toole referred to this. That is something that will take time to address, but we should certainly be working on it to bring down the cost.

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