Mr. Tony O'Brien:

I am not disagreeing with the Deputy. I am just responding to his question. It is always very tragic when any young person receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. That will always be the case. The Deputy's question is based on a presumption that there is some action that has been taken that has led to that diagnosis, but that is far from established. As has been explained in other forums, the reason we have a cervical screening programme, which is a screening rather than a diagnostic programme, is to limit the number of such cases, but it cannot eliminate them.