Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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815. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the national cancer strategy in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57027/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in cancer survival rates, and timely access to treatments. Funding of €27.4 billion is being made available to the health service in 2026. This represents an increase of 6.2% on the funding provided for 2025. A Letter of Determination is currently being prepared and will set out priorities and funding for the HSE next year. This will be the basis on which the HSE will draw up its National Service Plan (NSP) which will set out the services and levels of activity to be provided across the health service including in relation to cancer.

Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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816. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to cancer services in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57028/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in cancer survival rates, and timely access to treatments. Funding of €27.4 billion is being made available to the health service in 2026. This represents an increase of 6.2% on the funding provided for 2025. A Letter of Determination is currently being prepared and will set out priorities and funding for the HSE next year. This will be the basis on which the HSE will draw up its National Service Plan (NSP) which will set out the services and levels of activity to be provided across the health service including in relation to cancer.

Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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817. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has begun planning for the next national cancer strategy, as the current one expires in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57029/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to the implementation of the National Cancer Strategy, improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in survival rates and timely access to treatments. Over the course of the current Strategy, the investment in cancer services has led to significant improvements in the outcomes for patients. Survival rates have improved greatly and OECD data shows that cancer mortality rates in Ireland are falling faster than the EU27 average and faster than our economic peers. When the National Cancer Strategy was launched in 2017 the number of people alive, having received a cancer diagnosis, was 150,000. Over the course of the Strategy that has now reached over 220,000. It is important that the Strategy's recommendations continue to be implemented in 2026. An evaluation of the Strategy will be carried out and this will inform the next steps to be taken.