Professor Sean Daly:

I agree that the GP is central. There are two issues, those being, the provision of a service to diagnose structural abnormalities and the screening and identification of chromosomal abnormalities. In the UK, everyone gets both. In Ireland, people have not traditionally got either. Were we to concentrate on one area, it should be the structural abnormalities. If finance and so forth were no object, of course we would offer screening for chromosomal abnormalities to everyone, but we cannot even offer everyone a structural scan. If we are to focus our attention on priorities, that should be it. We should subsequently roll out screening for chromosomal abnormalities. If more than 20,000 women are not getting a structural scan, it is awful.