Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Steve Dempsey:

It is probably easier to take the last part first. From our perspective, it is absolutely vital. In terms of slippage, we have seen a strategy that had good intentions, was put together quite well and was quite progressive in nature being consistently underfunded due to the nature of how we decide our budgets. We need some mechanism to take the funding for strategies out of the voted expenditure and the politics of doing a budget so that clinicians like Dr. McCarthy can plan and so that the REOs and the HSE can put in place a plan to scale up the workforce, understand the capital limitations as regards infrastructure and put in place plans for capital expenditure.

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