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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, that is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Thank-you very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is damning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the delegations and thank them for their presentations. There has been a lot of talk about the impact of Covid on cancer services and the increasing numbers of undiagnosed cancers, which are concerning but also distort what is happening to a certain extent. I wish to discuss the pre-Covid period. We saw in the media today a report by the National Cancer Registry Ireland, NCRI,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I want to discuss specifics. The report contains a lot of generalities and part of that is because we do not have good data. A lack of good data holds everybody back and is a major problem within the health service. Earlier I posed the same question to the Irish Cancer Society and was told that two standout issues affect low-income communities when it comes to cancer services: low uptake...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Am I correct that the professor does not know about the uptake of screening services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is this not a key issue for the programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does anybody here know the uptake of screening based on socioeconomic profiles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am keen to hear the data. How big is the gap in uptake based on socioeconomic situations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that not a little concerning given that the HSE officials present are responsible for the programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thought the poor uptake of screening would be an issue with which the cancer control programme would concern itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I find it surprising that the national cancer control programme does not. I also raised the issue of access to diagnostics for people who cannot afford to pay privately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does Professor Ó Laoide recognise as a major issue the fact that people in Ireland cannot get access to public diagnostics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What is being done about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What are the waiting lists like for cancer diagnostics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am concerned about cancer diagnostics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is good news. It would be helpful if we had the figures across the board for different cancers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Do we have a figure for the cancer diagnostics waiting list?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Do we have a national figure?