Cancer Services
Dail Éireann — 2025-03-06
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

The former Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, previously furnished me with data that showed the number of people diagnosed with cancer was increasing every year until 2020 when the pandemic hit. Then it went significantly down. This suggests that people's cancers went undiagnosed when significant elements of the health services were closed down in 2020. To what extent did this happen?

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Sitting date: 2025-03-06