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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I do not expect Mr. Barry to criticise them. I am only asking whether he would, as chair, make recommendations, have conversations or put forward his opinion on the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I agree. Would Mr. Barry do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is all I wanted to know. I thank Mr. Barry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I apologise for jumping in and out. We must work out the issue of simultaneous Question Time and committee sittings. It is not the Chairman's fault. I thank the witnesses for attending. I have a number of questions and will start where Dr. Morrissey finished. I congratulate him on his work and thank him for it. Regarding the HRB's discussions with the Department, it is obvious that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I can imagine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am conscious that the HRB is a State body and that Dr. Morrissey is dancing between the lines, but it is obvious that there is a degree of frustration. From a budgetary point of view, the HRB is being asked to make decisions about the competing proposals being put to it. From a CTI or overall cancer perspective, though, it is also obvious that there is not enough funding and that the HRB,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is life.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I was going to ask her a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I believed Ms Mulroe would be the right person to go to next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: Is Ms Mulroe saying that it has been ring-fenced but is not being circulated through the entire network as a research budget line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is very revealing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: In order that it is ingrained.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: Silos.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is all interconnected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: As the Chairman is going to cut me off, I have one last question. What we have heard is very revealing. For the committee, it is glaringly obvious and in flashing lights that we will have to follow up on this issue with the Department. To break it down into two simple things, there is the funding issue - in fairness, Dr. Morrissey has been very diplomatic - and also an integrated...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: Does Ms Power have more deeper statistics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: Will Ms Power provide us with statistics she thinks would be useful such as the level of geographical coverage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)
Alan Kelly: Perfect.