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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank her for that because the parliamentary question response I got talked about the potential harms or risks to the population as a whole but it did not go on to elaborate on those. What Professor Flanagan has said is really useful and very helpful, that is, this could cause unneeded anxiety and alarm among the population. If the professor has more to say to us on that, please forward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: The parliamentary question response mentions something which was not in the opening statement this morning. It says the National Screening Advisory Committee, NSAC, is: [...] currently finalising plans for its first ‘annual call’ which will be announced later this year. Applications for proposals for new population based screening programmes and modifications to existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: No, that was a comprehensive and open response. I have three or four further brief questions. There are approximately 700 deaths from breast cancer annually. Have the witnesses any statistics on how many of those mortalities fall into the age group of 49 and younger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: This seems to be a very difficult question to get answers to. If the NCCP is the group we should ask for this information, it is a priority that the witnesses get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Professor Ó Laoide. I would also like data on how many fall into the various age categories. That is what we are looking for, whether it is those aged 50 to 69 or under-50s. How long, on average, do those women who access BreastCheck and who are over the age of 50 have to wait for the screening? If the witnesses do not have statistics on that but can supply them to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: How long are the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Once somebody is in the system. What is the longest someone waits to get into the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: If I may interrupt Professor Ó Laoide, I do not want to appear rude-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: -----but how long is the longest it can take for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: When a woman attends her GP and is referred, what is the longest referral period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Is the St. James's screening clinic back up and running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I have one final point. It seems to me that the cyberattack has been almost equally as intrusive as Covid. I have run out of time for further questions but I ask the witnesses to come back on the specific impact the cyberattack has had. I did not get a chance at the start to thank the witnesses. I thank them for all the extra evenings, the weekend clinics and the extended working days....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Why? In what way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: There seemed to be a contradiction in the answers in that regard, and I do not mean deliberately so. In one of the first answers, if I heard it correctly, it was stated that family history was not really relevant. I got confused then, because a subsequent answer seemed to suggest that a predisposition to it was a factor. I ask for some clarification of that aspect.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail for each voluntary and public hospital the number of beds in each as of 31 March 2021 or latest available; and the number in each on 30 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50620/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: 126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the cancer strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the healthcare sector is losing out on a number of healthcare professionals who are foreign nationals due to their visas expiring while they are waiting for their employee permits to come through; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that many of these healthcare...