Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)

I thank Ms Nolan, Mr. Dempsey and Dr. McCarthy for attending. I might start with Dr. McCarthy. I am conscious that a lot of what we are talking about here is the national cancer strategy, but one issue I want to raise is the inequality in access to cancer drugs. Last week we had Professor Michael Barry before our committee and he pushed back on the notion that there is an inequality in access to oncology drugs in this country. Dr. McCarthy might give me his assessment of where things are with that, public versus private.