Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our witnesses. From the HSE, we are joined by Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide, national director of the national cancer control programme; Professor Arnold Hill, surgical oncology clinical adviser at the national cancer control programme and consultant breast cancer surgeon; Dr. Clare Faul, radiation oncology clinical adviser at the national cancer control programme and consultant radiation oncologist; and Mr. Robert Kidd, assistant national director of acute operations at the HSE. I invite Professor Ó Laoide to make his opening remarks on behalf of the HSE.