{"id":384961,"date":"2026-04-06T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:55:07","slug":"ireland-south-mep-calls-for-equity-in-treatment-for-cancer-survivors-across-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384961\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland South MEP calls for equity in treatment for cancer survivors across the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ireland South MEP says EU guidelines for banks and insurers treating cancer survivors don\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/billy-kelleher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna F\u00e1il MEP Billy Kelleher<\/a> is calling for real legislation across member states.<\/p>\n<p>He argues hundreds of thousands of survivors are still being denied basic financial products because of past diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p>Kelleher says medical advances mean many people live full lives after cancer, and discrimination by financial providers must end.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament is expected to back a resolution calling for a pan-European \u201cRight to be Forgotten\u201d law.<\/p>\n<p>Kelleher says equal access to mortgages and insurance should be guaranteed for cancer survivors across all EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ireland South MEP says EU guidelines for banks and insurers treating cancer survivors don\u2019t go far enough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,151271,43],"class_list":["post-384961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-south-mep","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}