David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

To conclude, I have spoken to very senior officials in the Department of Health and they have told me that the vast majority of the €1.5 billion of additional funding was for existing levels of service. There is very little, if any, new money for new measures. There needs to be a degree of honesty here. There is no point having sessions where we want to talk about additional supports and additional services and ask where is the additional money if there are no answers - none. There are no answers here today in relation to where any new money for cancer services will come from.