An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2026-05-19
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

We have benefited enormously from a strategic approach to cancer over the past three decades, going back to the late nineties. That has resulted in significant survival rate improvements and increases in technology and so on. Survival rates for patients have improved greatly. OECD data show that cancer mortality rates in Ireland are falling faster than the EU 27 average and faster than that of our economic peers.
The first strategy was 1996. My understanding is that there is a successor to the current ten-year strategy in planning and on the way. There has to be.
I will talk to the Minister in terms of the Deputy's raising this issue today. We need to continue with that strategic approach, looking ahead at trends, therapies and how best to deploy them.

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