TDs in war of words over radiotherapy plans for Waterford

TWO Waterford TDs have clashed over plans to bring radiotherapy to the south-east, based at Waterford Regional Hospital.

Fianna Fáil’s Ollie Wilkinson has hit back at Labour’s Brian O’Shea over the effort to bring radiotherapy services to Waterford, saying his party has opposed the Whitfield Clinic being developed there and the construction of private hospitals on public grounds.

Mr Wilkinson was responding to comments by Mr O’Shea in the past week when he claimed the Government may feel it is “off the hook” over radiotherapy in Waterford.