Mr. Tony O'Brien:

I thank Deputy Cullinane for correctly identifying that the central issue is the process of audit and the failure to communicate the outcomes of those audits to the individuals in whose cases it was found that, in retrospect, a different test result should have been given. I took issue with Deputy MacSharry because his line of questioning tended to suggest that there was something fundamentally wrong that a screening programme could not pick up all cancer, and it is by that that I was concerned.