Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Cancer Strategy: Discussion
Dr. Jerome Coffey:
I would say that prevention is not a high-cost initiative and that it gets appropriate prioritisation in the cancer strategy. In the cancer control programme we have four public health specialists contributing to Healthy Ireland but also developing and establishing the Irish cancer prevention network. Again, it is a question of organisation, looking at the evidence and implementing it. It is not about finding huge amounts of additional funding to make a change.
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