228. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that trials and pilot programmes in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, have shown that lung cancer screening can increase early detection of the disease and thereby improve mortality; and his plans to introduce a lung cancer screening programme given lung cancer remains Ireland’s biggest cancer killer. [39034/20]

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228. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that trials and pilot programmes in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, have shown that lung cancer screening can increase early detection of the disease and thereby improve mortality; and his plans to introduce a lung cancer screening programme given lung cancer remains Ireland’s biggest cancer killer. [39034/20]

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