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:
I do not think we collate data on that. We can only go on the publicly available data. Sometimes, we get anecdotal information that someone is waiting, as we said in the opening statement, up to three months. There is huge variation in what people say depending on where they are. There is probably selection bias in terms of the people who contact us and the same selection bias if members have constituents coming to them directly with representations. It is very hard for us to get a good sense of the vista across the country.
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