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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The last shall be first and the first last. Is that not true? I seem to recall that was the wording. I welcome the witnesses. There are some very startling and worrying aspects. It is wrong to give an impression that people who are less affluent are in greater risk. Whatever happens, that must be dealt with. Whatever it is, that should apply in all aspects of the health service. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What do we need to do about that? What is the answer to that question? Why does that have to be? Is it because it has gradually become the cause of the problem? What is the cause of the problem and how do we deal with it now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is obviously not working, even though backup is available. One possibility is a lack of up-to-date data but why is it not working? With technology almost at its zenith, we should not have problems of this nature. How do we reach those people who are not getting services on time and diagnosis when they should?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What is the Irish Cancer Society asking us to do to address that now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Does Ms Morrogh mean the various forms of cancer, rather than one particular form of cancer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I agree with Ms Morrogh. The nub of the issue has to be dealt in early days. On ovarian cancer, the prognosis at stage 1 is 83% and only 15% at stage 5. There is a statistic. Would our guests like to elaborate further? That is from the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What is wrong with our system at the moment? Ms Power pointed out the lack of GPs and the graduates who are leaving the country, which incidentally cannot continue. A means has to be found to ensure that, having achieved their success in terms of graduation or qualification, their first job is in the country. We live in free times with freedom of travel, freedom of choice and so forth....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know. That is an old issue of mine, anyway. I am not gone over yet. Despite the article in the newspaper last weekend, my demise has not been heralded to that extent. What do we do now? Do we do an advertising campaign drawing public attention to the deficiencies so we will know more acutely what we have to do in the short term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Why does it not work?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Over the past six months I have repeatedly raised the question of the plight of a large number of women the length and breadth of this country who find themselves subjected to extraordinary abusive situations whereby in many cases they are not allowed to meet or to see their children except by telephone. Nothing appears to be happening as a matter of urgency, but something must happen as a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to have discussions with all parties in Northern Ireland, with a view to early restoration of the Assembly and resolution to the Northern Ireland Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4391/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he has had interaction with his European colleagues in regard to the various trouble spots affecting Europe, and the wider global security, safety, immigration and other issues that might present a threat to peace and stability. [60888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent meetings with the French President, Emmanuel Macron. [59484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 364. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he has met with or exchanged views with the British Prime Minister in the context of the Northern Ireland protocol. [3052/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to engage with the authorities in Northern Ireland and the UK in the context of the restoration of the Northern Assembly and the prevention of obstacles to trade, North and South; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the modus operandi in relation to developing improved North/South relations with particular reference to the need to engage with the communities in Northern Ireland in a positive manner in order encourage better understanding of each other’s position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to use Ireland’s position at EU/UN level to highlight outrages against women and children in the various conflict zones across the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he directly and through the European Union can continue to support EU applicant countries such as the Western Balkans, how each country is progressing towards membership of the EU and whether any new initiatives are appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4754/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (31 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 377. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he can use his good offices to address human rights abuses across the globe, with particular reference to well-known conflict areas; if the international community can use its influence to bring to bear on the various factions the need for change and modernisation of thinking; and if he will make a statement on the...