Mr. Damien McCallion:

It is important that we look at the total budget because we tend to focus on that extra €20 million. For example, we spend over €600 million on cancer drugs. There is significant money embedded in the hospitals for diagnostics. There is cancer screening and HPV vaccinations, aids and appliances and the cancer support centers. The overall budget is a much bigger budget. We do not necessarily have visibility of all of that. The cancer control programme will set the direction, as Mr. Canavan has said, for the regions. It will give assurance when the regions come back with their service plans to make sure that the key issues that need to be addressed in each region are addressed within that service plan. Looking at diagnostics, for example, some of that will come through our renewed pay agreement and around an extended working week so we can open up those diagnostic facilities into the evening and into Saturdays as well. This will hopefully ease the flow on some of the challenges as set out by the Irish Cancer Society earlier.