David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

Mr. McCallion came into the committee this morning and reaffirmed the €20 million figure for last year. I have been a health spokesperson since 2020. In 2021, we knew what funding was going into the national cancer strategy and in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. This year, we are being told zero - silence. If Mr. McCallion cannot tell me a figure, I can only surmise that there is no additional funding going into it. There is no transparency. The reason we have national cancer strategies is so that we can all see exactly what is being done, where the money is going, what it is being spent on and how much new money is there. All I am getting today is, "We will do our best with the existing money we have and maybe we will do better" and "There may be new money but I cannot tell you what it is".