Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The budget for health this year has been very expensive and unprecedented. The issue has been to facilitate the safe return of non-Covid services. The focus in the reopening of society on a cautious and phased basis was to prioritise the return of health services. The cyberattack has hit that even more in terms of what it did to the Nimis diagnostic system and scanning capacity, particularly in radiology. That is coming back in quite a number of hospitals. There is no doubt that we will allocate resources and do everything we possibly can to restore services, particularly cancer screening programmes, oncology services and surgery in general.

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