Seanad debates
Thursday, 23 October 2003
Adjournment Matter. - Cancer Services.
The report also contains justification for concentrating on having four to six linear accelerators in different locations. That contradicts a professional report done in the UK by Calman Hine, which stated that there is justification for having at least two linear accelerators for a population cluster of approximately 300,000. Our disappointment in the mid-west is due to the fact that we have the money available to provide capital funding for the linear accelerators. A very good charitable trust in the area provided that funding and all it wanted was a commitment from the Department to provide the staffing resources for the facility. It was not as if it asked for the capital investment to be provided.
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