Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-09
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

Ireland has the highest incidence of rare disease in Europe. It is one in every 17 people, including all children with cancer. One of the critical tools in securing a diagnosis, and, as a result, a possible treatment, is genetic testing. However, when the Crumlin hospital relocates to the national children's hospital, the genetics and genomics laboratory will be left behind. We have now been told that the Crumlin hospital site will be redeveloped as an elective hospital. Where will our national genomics laboratory be housed?

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Sitting date: 2024-05-09