Results 161-180 of 23,533 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

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

Róisín Shortall: Dr. Henry does not take them up at political level.

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

Róisín Shortall: Professor Ó Laoide made the point that we needed a national co-ordinated strategy that was data driven. Why do we not have that?

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

Róisín Shortall: What about the rest of the programme in terms of staffing, access to diagnostics, treatment and so on?

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

Róisín Shortall: Does that cover all of the professions that play a part?

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

Róisín Shortall: Is that data available?

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

Róisín Shortall: Staffing. The workforce data requirements.

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.