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
Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:
I will come in on the first question about Kerry. I am pretty familiar with the hospital. I know it had significant struggles over Covid providing chemotherapy and systemic therapy in general. We in the NCCP are fully supportive of the development that should take place in University Hospital Kerry. It fits in totally with our systemic therapy model of care, which delivers care closest to where the patient can have it safely. We are fully supportive of that. I do not have the specifics on where the project is at the moment, but it is critically important. It is crucial for the whole region that the patients in Kerry get their services locally in a safe manner.
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