Professor Riste?rd ? Laoide:

The numbers of cancers were down 10% in 2020. Most of the people with cancer, if they are alive, will present with cancer. We are seeing an increase in cancers in our urgent rapid access clinics of 10% in 2022 compared with 2019. Some of that may be a demographic element. Obviously, the population has increased and people are getting older so there is an inexorable climb there anyway in the number of cancers that we are going to see. The preliminary data we are getting is that the extra cancers are more likely to be the early stage cancers, rather than the late stage. I hope we will verify that because that would be good news for us, the people of Ireland and for the patients.