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

David Cullinane: The Minister has political responsibility. I am talking about operational responsibility.

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

David Cullinane: The Secretary General of the Department of Health is the person responsible for the national cancer strategy.

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

David Cullinane: Under the Secretary General, is there no lead person?

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

David Cullinane: Is there one person who is the lead, the champion, the person who is ultimately responsible? For any strategy to work it is necessary to make sure there are clear lines of communication so that I and everybody else in this Chamber and outside this Chamber knows who is responsible for the strategy. I ask that because I want to make this point first. Actually I am going to put my questions...

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

David Cullinane: No, I did not ask about that. I asked whether a case is made for 2024.

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

David Cullinane: What was that case? How much was sought?

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

David Cullinane: Who makes the bid?

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

David Cullinane: The NCCP makes the bid. It would have made a bid each and every year for seven years.

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

David Cullinane: For 2024, as an example, what was the bid?

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

David Cullinane: I refer to budget 2024.

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

David Cullinane: How much did you get?

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

David Cullinane: That just sums it up. That sums it up in one answer. The Department saw €20 million. It is meant to be the leader, its job is to deliver a strategy. We have people who sit on stakeholder groups and consultation groups who spend a lot of time and effort on behalf of cancer patients and survivors to put in place a cancer strategy that requires funding. For 2024, this year,...

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

David Cullinane: What is the point in having a strategy? That was said to us today. If we are just going to have a strategy that is a document with words on a page into which goes a great deal of work by people in this room, which I do not doubt. I do not blame the people in this room, as a huge amount of work goes into it. Yet the funding is not there. We also hear a related issue on a lack of data...

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

David Cullinane: I do not doubt that Dr. Henry because my criticism is not of the staff, the wonderful staff who work in cancer services throughout the State. My point is that we put strategies in place for a reason. The strategies are well researched, are based on evidence and on what is needed and then the strategies are not resourced. It makes a mockery of the strategies. That is the point. It makes a...

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

David Cullinane: Sorry, Dr. Henry, you cannot say that when for this year €20 million was sought and zero was given. I cannot have confidence in Dr. Henry's response when he tells me that "we do the best with what we have". Of course that is what they have to do. In regard to the issue of data collection and monitoring, they are gold dust in healthcare. The best way to solve a medical row is to put...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 909. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship certificate of naturalization for a person (details supplied). [14937/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1083. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for each quarter to date 2019-2024, by CHO inclusive, in tabular form; the number overdue for completion; and the number of estimated PTAs waiting for a complete AON, as reported in the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026: Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT, at the end of each quarter of each year 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people on disability service waiting lists for each service type, excluding children’s disability network teams, at the end of each quarter of each year 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for each quarter of each year 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the number overdue for completion; and the number of estimated PTAs waiting for a complete AON, in tabular form, as reported in the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026:...