Cancer Research: All-island Cooperation

Part of Private Members' Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly am 4:00 pm ar 17 Mehefin 2024.

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Photo of Diane Dodds Diane Dodds DUP 4:00, 17 Mehefin 2024

I beg to move the following amendment

Leave out all after "cooperation in cancer research" and insert: "with both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland; further recognises that clinical experts in this field have stated that developing oncology innovation clusters, by pooling resources, could help to drive research and investment in oncology, domestically and internationally; calls on the Department of Health to engage meaningfully with the respective Departments of Health in London and Dublin to consider opportunities for increasing both east-west and North/South cooperation in delivering innovative research into cancer prevention, treatments and interventions in the British Isles; and further calls on the Minister of Health to develop a Northern Ireland cancer research strategy and subsequently update the Committee for Health with a progress report on this issue."