Professor Arnold Hill:

I thank the Senator, who made a very important point. We are all familiar, as she said, with people who are very young when they get breast cancer, and it is very traumatic. We rely for our statistics on the National Cancer Registry Ireland, which has a website, , and it can break it down by age. I reiterate that it is important when someone gets it at a young age, but there are a lot of women of an older age who get breast cancer. We can get the Senator the exact figures by each age from NCRI as that information is available. The point I made was that, proportionately, women around the age of 30 are a small component overall but, as she said, it is very important. She knows several people and, for their extended families, it has a massive impact on their lives. I have great sympathy with what the Senator is saying and it is very true, but I do not think there is anything inaccurate in what we are saying in regard to the percentage of women overall with breast cancer.