Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The actual signing of the contract was authorised by the National Cancer Screening Service Board, which was a State agency, it was not part of the HSE. In fact the original Irish cervical screening programmes set up in the Mid-Western Health Board was part of the HSE and the Government decision was made, I presume it was a Government decision, to transfer it out of the HSE and into a new board which subsumed it and the-----