Dr. Gabrielle Colleran:

Ms Power has outlined what we have seen during the Covid pandemic when capacity for cancer care is not ring-fenced. If there is not enough capacity in the system and we have something like a pandemic or when the needs for unscheduled care at acute hospitals increases, there will be an impact on access for cancer patients. Ireland has had great success with cancer care through the establishment of specialist cancer centres. We need to continue that model. We need to ensure, as Professor Landers and Dr. McCauley have outlined, that at every step in the pathway we have enough capacity. When patients go to their GPs, the GPs need to be able to refer on promptly to the-----