Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
All-Island Cancer Research Institute: Discussion
2:00 am
Professor William Gallagher:
I have just a brief comment on the data side. Again, under the North-South research programme, there is a large-scale project funded called the eHealthHub for Cancer. It is led by Professor Aedín Culhane in Limerick and Professor Mark Lawler in Queen's University Belfast. A particular focus has tried to look at cancer-related data and how we look at best practice and harmonise activities. Again, there are demonstrators in blood cancer and, I think, in breast cancer trying to really look at the exemplar in Northern Ireland. We can benefit from that and try to address issues as to what is going on in the Irish context. This is seeded under a particular four-year project, but then you need to transition. The challenge for a lot of these things is how to mainstream a project you have for three or four years. I am passionate about this long-term perspective, almost like a jigsaw puzzle.
We have elements of a jigsaw puzzle, but what is the big picture and how do we make sure that these are sustainable over time? I do not know if Professor Hanna wants to come in on anything.
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