158 Dr. Cowley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether she should take up the offer made by a Galway clinic on 11 February 2003 to provide a BreastCheck service until the unit was built in Galway in view of the fact that breast cancer is a terrible killer and in further view of the fact that health care apartheid exists here and that 260 more women will die needlessly in the west and south before BreastCheck is up and running; if she cannot fast-track BreastCheck before 2007, if she will allow the Galway clinic to provide a breast screening service in the meantime to save these 260 women’s valuable lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15563/06]

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158 Dr. Cowley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether she should take up the offer made by a Galway clinic on 11 February 2003 to provide a BreastCheck service until the unit was built in Galway in view of the fact that breast cancer is a terrible killer and in further view of the fact that health care apartheid exists here and that 260 more women will die needlessly in the west and south before BreastCheck is up and running; if she cannot fast-track BreastCheck before 2007, if she will allow the Galway clinic to provide a breast screening service in the meantime to save these 260 women’s valuable lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15563/06]

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