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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: It is likely the next Government will deliver the fourth cancer strategy. That is not to say that we do not want to see the third one implemented in its fullest before that. From experience, when would the review of that start, in terms of the preparation or the draft strategy for the next outcome? What role will our witnesses have in feeding into that? Professor Kennedy mentioned the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Professor Kennedy mentioned in his opening statement that between 1994 and 1998 just 44% of Irish patients were alive five years after a cancer diagnosis and this has improved in 2018 to 65%. Literally thousands of people are alive today and have gone on to have families and have lives and all that goes with that because of the cancer strategies and investment. The figure in 2018 was 65%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Would that be the same for heart disease and for all other illnesses? Obviously the 1990s were different in terms of education, more people smoked such as people who started smoking in the 1950s and 1960s who did not know the consequences of it. With younger people today, there may be more pressures, bombardment or whatever else, but most young people know there are dangers with smoking,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses. I acknowledge the new radiation oncology centre that opened in University Hospital Galway, UHG, in October. It will assist by improving the survival rates for cancer patients in the west, which are below average. What plans are there to bring the survival rates in the west up to the average, as it continues to rise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: The Irish Cancer Society has indicated that waiting times for radiation therapy have increased. Expensive equipment is lying idle and there is an ongoing shortage of radiation therapists. What is being done in the short term to address those issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: When Professor Ó Laoide said they allowed additional overtime, has that been recent? Is it ongoing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Are the waiting lists still increasing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Will more radiation therapists come through the system next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: From how many places? What is the overall figure?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe anseo ó BANÚ agus go n-éirí an t-ádh leo lena gcuid oibre. Chas siad leis an Aire, an Teachta Darragh O’Brien, mar a luadh agus iad ag iarraidh go mbeadh na treoirlínte faoin Acht pleanála á fhoilsiú chomh luath agus is féidir. Ar leag an tAire síos aon amscála do na...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Tá sé sin togha. Maidir leis an gcruinniú a bhí ag na finnéithe le príomhfheidhmeannach an údaráis, Tomás Ó Síocháin, dúirt siad gurb é a thuairim ná nach raibh an chumhacht reachtúil ag an údarás tabhairt faoin fhorbairt agus go bhfuil sé i gceist ag an údarás na suíomhanna a...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Cabhróidh an tAcht, an reachtaíocht sin, le daoine a bhfuil cead pleanála faighte acu agus atá chun teach a thógáil nó a cheannach. Is ceann de na fadhbanna atá ann ná nach bhfuil dóthain soláthair ar fáil mar nach bhfuil daoine in ann cead pleanála a fháil agus nach bhfuil a dhóthain tithe ar fáil mar gheall...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Níl. Is rud eile é sin. Tá fadhbanna ar an R336, mar is eol do Dhonncha Ó hÉallaithe. Tá sé contúirteach in áiteanna. Aontaím leis ach níl chuile iarratas mar an gcéanna. Is ceann de na fadhbanna é sin. Cabhraíonn na treoirlínte nua agus an bhéim nua ar an nGaeilge le daoine tithe a thógáil. Is...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: An bhfuil caighdeán níos airde á lorg?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Táim chuile áit.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: D'oibrigh an córas do Mhaitiú de Hál ó thaobh teach a cheannach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Gloster and his team. Mr. Gloster came before the committee on 27 September regarding capital infrastructure in Galway. At that stage, he said he had decided to: ... get a full project team with good, strong expert advice from outside as well as inside to the Saolta group and we would rapidly ensure the overall capital plan for Galway is set out in terms of all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: The work has not started yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I know work has not started on the building. Has the board started work on the plan? It is hiring consultants.