Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is correct that it has been said recently that the work cannot be completed by 2011. I cannot accept and have not accepted that additional time is needed to complete the work.

The radiotherapy hospitals in Waterford hospital, which only came on stream two years ago, are fully built and operational. The second accelerator unit is working and it is being used by the National Treatment Purchase Fund——

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