The Junior Minister for Health says she never thought she would be one of the thousands of Irish people diagnosed with skin cancer.
Deputy Mary Butler's returned to work in the Dáil after two surgeries to remove cancer from the bridge of her nose.
She says it's a warning to people to take care in the sun:
"I was always conscious of sun cream but maybe not so much on my face. Often you'd be out and about and your nose would get sunburned, and then it would go red and brown up and you think no more about it. I have become way more conscious as I got older - and in the last few years, you know, I have become way more conscious. I suppose it is a warning to people. I would tan fairly well and I never thought that I would be one of the people that would have skin cancer".
