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)
I am not asking Mr. McCallion about all those other measures. We will talk about those later. I am talking about the national cancer strategy. It is deeply disappointing that we do not have a figure. It is suspect that we do not have one. There is a fear that there is no new money for the national cancer strategy this year. Others have spoken about a fear of decentralising. I do not really share that fear. There is a role for the regions but there is also a role for national strategies and experts who feed into those national strategies and steering groups. The people who sit on those steering groups do not know what is happening. How can they plan if they do not know what the line funding is?
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