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. Damien McCallion:
The national strategy as a whole will identify a set of priorities as we move forward. The health regions have just been established. I will bring Mr. Canavan in shortly to give context around how the regions will approach that. With maternity, there is a national maternity women and infants office, as there is a national cancer control programme. They will clearly set the direction, oversee it and ensure that in the service plan every year, priorities are being addressed, whether that is through more productivity from within the existing system or new funding, as Deputy Cullinane has stated. I will ask Mr. Canavan to give an example on the regions and how that will work in practice.
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