Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:

From the lung cancer perspective and the figures overall for this year, 2,469 patients were seen at the rapid access clinic nationally in 2020 and 2,716 people were seen in 2019. This is 91% of numbers. There needs to be a caveat to this in that some patients are actually going through other pathways this year. Because of the presence of respiratory issues with Covid, this has seen some patients go through that pathway. When we consider the number of diagnoses of lung cancers this year, and if we look at the primary lung cancers diagnosed through the rapid access clinic, there have been 942 as opposed to 979 last year. That is a 96.2% number of lung cancers diagnosed.