Mr. Stephen Teap:

There were two questions asked. Did we know where the smear tests were screened? Halfway down the page of Irene's 2010 result it said that the test had been processed in Austin, Texas. There was no reference to where the test had been processed in the 2013 result. While it is on the same headed paper, there is no information on the most recent result. Was Irene's case flagged for further review? The answer is that I do not know. All we were told was the outcome of the audit. I did ask what the process for the audit was. I asked the consultant that. He did not know the answer but, thankfully, there was a nurse in the room who did. She could only speak on behalf of the clinic in St. Finbarr's. She explained the process there to me. Irene did not attend that clinic but it is where the tests for cervical cancer are done. She said that once a month a list is compiled of the names of all the women who have been diagnosed with cervical cancer and it is sent off to the register. It is there that the audit process begins. I asked how long it takes for an audit to take place. The nurse in question said that she had the exact same question earlier that week and had made a phone call to CervicalCheck which said that it would be six or seven months before an audit would be returned. Irene's audit took 22 months and I believe Vicky's took nearly----