Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1045. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to establish a national genetics and genomics medicine network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41650/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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A paper which considered the potential role of genomic medicine in Ireland and which reviewed genomics strategies in other countries was presented to the Department of Health management board in January 2020.

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic led to a rapid reprioritisation of the Department’s activities to manage the health and social care system’s response to the crisis.

As a result of this, the future role of genomics medicine in Ireland, and the implementation of this Programme for Government commitment, remains under deliberation by the Department of Health