Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On implementation, one of the things we have all become used to and which is replicated all over the world is that plans are brought forward, strategies are devised, steering groups are set up but there can be an unmerciful time delay from all of that administrative activity through to things actually happening on the ground, in hospitals, for example. Do the witnesses have any sense of when this will be up and running? I do not know how many cancer research clinicians we have but I suspect it is a relatively small number.

When will life become materially easier for them in terms of pursuing research agendas around cancer trials and so forth? When will they feel a difference?