Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That still does not address the question I asked. Dr. O'Keeffe is talking about the percentage of the population covered. I am talking about an individual woman. An individual woman is told that the test is not 100% accurate. That is the information she is given and that is the information consultants are given. The reality is that if that woman has pre-cancerous cells, the screening has about a seven in ten chance of spotting them. If I were told that the test was not 100% accurate, I would not infer from that information that the test was only 70% accurate. Do the witnesses believe the information provided to women is accurate or misleading? If it is misleading, is it reasonable to suppose that it could have led to less vigilance than might otherwise have been the case, which could have clinical repercussions?