Treatment should not be a lottery

The assertion by Transport Minister Martin Cullen that there is no difference between public and private radiotherapy for the South-East indicates his tenuous grasp on reality.

There is a difference, and too often it can be the difference between life and death something which the minister appears to overlook in espousing the concept of private investment in healthcare.

Something else he conveniently overlooks is the fact that prior to the last general election, he promised that the South-East would get a public radiotherapy unit, a pledge that undoubtedly secured him votes. When Mr Cullen lays the foundation stone for a