Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes and I will tell the Senator why. At the time, there was no potential to provide a national cervical screening programme based on the laboratory system that was in place in Ireland at that time. The labs were not accredited. Women were waiting for up to a year for their results. Some of those slides were being read on kitchen tables. That is not a place-----

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