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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
The key issue is the question of what new funding is made available each and every year. If there is a lack of transparency around that and we do not how much additional funding is coming and where it is going, we cannot make any genuine assessment as to whether we are investing in improved services. To go back to my fundamental question, we were clear on how much additional funding was to be given in 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022. In some years, it was given and, in other years, it was not. I have no idea this year. It is a departure from standard practice. I assume the witnesses' organisations have been in contact with the Department to ask that question. Can they enlighten us as to whether there is any additional funding for the national cancer strategy in budget 2026?
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