Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).
Given that the Government talks a lot about public-private partnerships, this was a classic example where the Mid Western Hospital Development Trust was prepared to put in the funding for the capital equipment and all that was required from the Department of Health and Children was to provide the finance for the people to be employed in that service. It is a retrograde step not to consider a radiotherapy unit for this area. I presume that by the end of the discussion today the Minister will at least be honest and say it is embodied within the report that there is to be no radiotherapy facility for the mid-west region. We can then be honest with the people in the region by telling them the facility will not be provided because it is not recognised that within the mid-western area the facility is required.
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