David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I see that in Ms Morrogh's submission and opening statement she refers to public awareness campaigns to encourage people to get screened and checked, and to have a diagnosis. If the capacity is not there, the screening services are not up and running, and people are contacting the programmes but not hearing back, that will add to their stress. Ms Morrogh is right in saying that we need to have advertising programmes and that people need to be informed and encouraged. If we do that, would Ms Morrogh agree that it is important that the programmes are up and running? Otherwise, it gives people false hope and adds to the stress that they will be under.

The submissions that we have got from both organisations are really high quality, with many good recommendations that this committee should forward to the HSE. The IMO talks about investment in diagnostic and treatment pathways being needed to support the full re-establishment of these life-saving programmes. It is talking about the screening services. Would Ms Clyne from the IMO speak generally about the need to accelerate the reopening of screening services and the importance of it from her perspective?