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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. For clarity, there was a bid for 2024.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Henry does not have the number to hand, however.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: He can provide it in a note to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the current average waiting time for a new cancer genetics appointment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Information was put into the public sphere last year and the average was approximately 396 days, so that would be a similar-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that an improvement? That is about 13 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is for testing. That is nothing to do with counselling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What actions are the HSE taking to deal with those waiting times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the amount of that funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Could we have that included in the note please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I do not mean to cut across Dr. McCarthy but I just want to be clear that what she is describing is additional funding for outsourcing of genetic testing to private companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Again, for clarity, perhaps we could get information about what Dr. McCarthy means by a temporary measure. Is that 12 months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Was that funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: So that received no funding in 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Could Dr. McCarthy comment on 2024 again? I know that she going to say it but I believe it is important for the record that because the NCCP received nothing, this particular issue of genetic testing also received nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. In the context of what we have been talking about a lot this morning, which is an increase in cancer year-on-year of 3%, we really need to be putting more focus and more energy into preventative measures and then genetic testing surely is a massive part of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have left less than two minutes remaining. There is the issue around the lack of new development funding and the correlation between this and the recruitment issue. The increase in recruitment between 2021 and 2022 has been cited a number of times. It is also raised in the briefing note to the committee, which states specifically that it ends at 2022 and cites 742 staff. Can I make the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Surely if there is a package of new development funding, the HSE would have some room to manoeuvre in addressing some of those more complicated issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Around what might be barriers to taking up employment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: So it is a fair correlation that in 2021 and 2022 when new development funding was in place, this is when progress was actually made on recruitment.