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

-----and would have noticed when she returned from the UK that we had a very high level of cervical cancer relative to our European counterparts, and that there was a critical need. She became highly aware, as a witness mentioned earlier, that we are doing about the same amount of smear tests now as we did ten years ago. They simply are being done differently.

Everybody is getting a go at it here. In Sláintecare, we talk about a single-tier health service based on need, not ability to pay. In this case, it is actually a success story in the sense we have managed to - I want to phrase this correctly - get to every woman and every demographic in the country, when we were not doing this ten years ago.