TD Richard Boyd-Barrett, speaking for the first time in the Dáil since his cancer treatment, has called for greater investment in linear accelerators. Photograph: Oireachtas TV
The State is spending €23 million a year outsourcing radiotherapy for oncology patients to the private sector “because of machines breaking down, not being replaced, and the lack of a national replacement programme”, the Dáil heard on Wednesday.
The claim was made by People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett who
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