Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Ms Power and her team do enormous work in advocacy. The Irish Cancer Society is an important stakeholder. There is no doubt it has saved thousands of lives and given people quality of life. On the availability of updated data, we have had discussions in this committee over the years about computer systems. As regards access to data, for example, people who turn up at an emergency department in an area they are not familiar with would present a card to be scanned by the hospital to show which drugs they should or should not take. What is the situation in terms of the availability of updated data for cancer? How does it affect outcomes if data may not be as readily available as it should be? Perhaps Ms Harte would like to answer.