Professor William Gallagher:

Dear Cathaoirleach, Deputies and Senators, I thank you for the opportunity to meet with the committee today to discuss our vision for an all-island cancer research institute, or AICRI, for short. First proposed in 2020, the AICRI core working group and wider steering committee has made great strides in bringing this critical initiative forward. Indeed, a network of support for this intended cross-Border nexus has now grown significantly over the past 12 months.

We would like to first show the committee the following short video summary highlighting the overall concept of AICRI. We will then describe in more detail the background to our initiative, current activities and plans.