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

Dr. Michael McCarthy:

I will respond very briefly, if that is okay. The problem is that, in terms of the KPI and accessing the treatments that are available, the HSE, the people I work with, have worked very hard to try to deal with a rapidly rising demand on our services. I can go through that in detail later if the committee would like, but the issue, it seems to me, is that we need more capacity and more staff nurses. It is not clear to me that it is the NCCP's responsibility to supply us with all the staff nurses and clerical staff you would need to implement a service, so, ultimately, it would be with the HSE.

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