Question from Deputy Michael Cahill - PQ 44657-26

To ask the Minister for Health to provide as a matter of priority a permanent oncology, haematology build at University Hospital Kerry as patients numbers there requiring chemotherapy (are increasing year on year, with over 5000 patients treated in UHK last year and the existing facility does not have the capacity to cope with the increased demand, the provision of a new facility will also reduce the need for Kerry patients having to travel to Cork); and if she will make a statement on the matter.