Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is ten years since the cervical screening programme commenced, and Mr. O'Brien was there at the start, before moving to his role in the HSE.

Can Mr. O'Brien assure me, the committee members and the wider public that he, as the head of the national cancer screening service and on his subsequent appointment as chief executive of the HSE was re-evaluating the CervicalCheck programme, auditing it on an annual or biannual basis, making sure that the results of the checks that were done were comparable with the results in other European countries and in the wider global arena? Is he confident that in his role then and now that the laboratory was up to scratch for the job that it was paid to do?