Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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1635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of annual inpatient cases attending the Mater hospital for cancer services in the years 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1932/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested by the Deputy are supplied in the table. In the period 2019-2021, the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data from the Healthcare Pricing Office reports that there was an average of 2,509 discharges per year of inpatients with a principal diagnosis code indicating a neoplasm at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, while a further 6,406 discharges on average per year have attended for neoplasm appointments on a day case basis.