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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: As for the consequences, obviously this is about making sure we do right by cancer patients. The witnesses have said that more people are being diagnosed with cancer. It is a very traumatic experience for them and their families. Despite the challenges and despite the lack of funding, the people who work in this area and the specialists are doing a fantastic job. Anyone I know who gets...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I would like to come back to the radiation therapy issue. This jumped out from the opening statement. Ms Power stated that while wait times for radiation therapy have increased, expensive equipment is lying idle in hospitals due to an ongoing shortage of radiation therapists. It really drives people mad when we have equipment but do not have the staff to operate it. Why, in the witnesses'...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I know we need more but in saying we cannot get them, why are they not there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Professor Kennedy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: We have seven minutes so if my questions can be answered as succinctly as possible that would be great. Who has overall responsibility for the national cancer strategy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Who has overall responsibility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: The Minister has political responsibility. I am talking about operational responsibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: The Secretary General of the Department of Health is the person responsible for the national cancer strategy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Under the Secretary General, is there no lead person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Is there one person who is the lead, the champion, the person who is ultimately responsible? For any strategy to work it is necessary to make sure there are clear lines of communication so that I and everybody else in this Chamber and outside this Chamber knows who is responsible for the strategy. I ask that because I want to make this point first. Actually I am going to put my questions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: No, I did not ask about that. I asked whether a case is made for 2024.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: What was that case? How much was sought?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Who makes the bid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: The NCCP makes the bid. It would have made a bid each and every year for seven years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: For 2024, as an example, what was the bid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I refer to budget 2024.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: How much did you get?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: That just sums it up. That sums it up in one answer. The Department saw €20 million. It is meant to be the leader, its job is to deliver a strategy. We have people who sit on stakeholder groups and consultation groups who spend a lot of time and effort on behalf of cancer patients and survivors to put in place a cancer strategy that requires funding. For 2024, this year,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: What is the point in having a strategy? That was said to us today. If we are just going to have a strategy that is a document with words on a page into which goes a great deal of work by people in this room, which I do not doubt. I do not blame the people in this room, as a huge amount of work goes into it. Yet the funding is not there. We also hear a related issue on a lack of data...