Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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686. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on transport provided to cancer patients in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20365/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her. If she has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days she should contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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687. To ask the Minister for Health if a funding stream can be found to sustain the vital community transport service provided by Purple House Cancer Support which provided 409 community-based transport trips to cancer patients on low and limited incomes in the Leinster areas in 2014, yet receives no funding through the national cancer control programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20366/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her. If she has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days she should contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.