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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Where is it available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is it published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Maybe Professor Ó Laoide could bring that data to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That would be helpful. What is Professor Ó Laoide’s view on the current level of co-ordination in the strategy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The co-ordination of the whole strategy. I am finding it difficult to get a clear picture of what is happening. The Parliamentary Budget Office studied this matter and referred to the difficulty in accessing meaningful data-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is that published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Will the witnesses put together a report for us on funding-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----over the past seven years relative to the requirements of a modern service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: We would appreciate seeing those figures. I wish to ask about BowelScreen and access to colonoscopies. I understand that the uptake target for colonoscopies was 60% but has reduced to 45%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is that not a long way short of best practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is the current target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is a meaningless statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There is international or European best practice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: No, but if one sets a target, there is an implication that one has to work to reach it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I am nearly out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: My final question is on the issue of visas for radiation therapists. What has the HSE done about the delays in granting those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There has been a shortfall for quite some time. Has the Department reverted to the HSE on the matter?