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

...private sector in general. In the long run, I think that is not a solution to these problems. It is a sticking plaster. However, we can do things better. We have problems, for instance, getting visas in a timely fashion for people who are coming to take up jobs in this country, in places like nursing, radiation therapy, etc. We can look at processes for expediting accreditation for...

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

...and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on this, urging him to examine the long-term supply of radiation therapists and whether there are other ways of expediting delivery. The visa issue that Professor Kennedy hit on is also crucial.

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

.... We are frustrated that time was not spent addressing this over the past five years. I have to express that frustration. On what can be done now, I believe that sorting out accreditation and visas for people who are willing to come here from other countries, as mentioned by Professor Kennedy, seems like low-hanging fruit. It is something that could be done relatively easily. It is...

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

Colm Burke: I presume the HSE has engaged with the relevant Departments on resolving the issue of visas.

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

Róisín Shortall: On the two issues that were raised, visas and accreditation, is the Department of enterprise responsible for processing the visas?

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

Professor M. John Kennedy: Accreditation is the responsibility of CORU and visas are issued by the Department of Justice, as I understand it. There were huge problems with both of those issues in recent years, in terms of allowing people who were applying from abroad and trained abroad to come here and do the work and those delays resulted in people going elsewhere.

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)

Professor Riste?rd ? Laoide: I believe the HSE is in discussions with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on how to expedite visas for key workers like those. The NCCP does not do that directly.

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

Róisín Shortall: Has the HSE heard back from the Department about visas?