Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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614. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the State has invested in cancer research in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37647/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health Research Board, a statutory agency under the aegis of my Department, has invested approximately €21.8 million through Cancer Trials Ireland in the development of a network of cancer clinical trials in hospitals across Ireland over the past five years. The breakdown of the funding is as follows:

Meanwhile, the National Cancer Registry, another statutory agency under the aegis of my Department, has invested approximately €4.8 million in research relating to cancer statistics in Ireland over the same period. While some of this amount came from non-statutory bodies , the majority was state-funded. The breakdown of the funding is as follows:

Science Foundation Ireland has also invested in cancer research during the past five years.