Cancer Services
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-02
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

There are five public radiotherapy treatment centres with a total of 22 linear accelerators across the services. Galway has four, Cork has five and St. Luke's has 14 machines across the three sites in Dublin. The HSE also contracts radiation oncology services for public patients to centres in Waterford and Limerick and has a service-level agreement with the North West Cancer Centre in Altnagelvin to provide radiotherapy services for patients within a 90-minute road journey of Derry.
Under the National Plan for Radiation Oncology, NPRO, Ireland has developed state-of-the-art radiation oncology centres, as the Deputy is aware. I will look into the examples the Deputy has given relating to the management and replacement of different machines. I just need to spend more time doing that. I thank the Deputy for highlighting it.

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Sitting date: 2025-10-02