Written answers
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Department of Health
Health Strategies
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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193. To ask the Minister for Health the role of genomic medicine in Ireland; his plans for a national genomics strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48278/21]
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 matter remains under deliberation by the Department of Health.
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