Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. It is good that the national cancer control programme is doing that and we heard its representatives on the radio this morning. I am proposing something far more ambitious because considerable resources, professionalism, talent and money have been brought to the public communications around Covid-19. There are advertisements in every newspaper, on every radio programme and on the television, and we are all out talking about it. Every door has a big yellow sign on it referring to Covid-19. That is fantastic and deserves credit. My point is that, with the best will in the world, the national cancer control programme could never replicate that kind of campaign on its own. If what we are looking at is the potential of more people dying of an additional cancer rate than die from Covid, can we deploy the full resources of the Government, as has been done for Covid-19?

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