Mr. John Connaghan:

The Deputy is raising important and fundamental questions in relation to the screening programme, particularly on the quality and effectiveness of the provision of that service and what it means. There is a document, which we can make available to the committee, Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Screening, which I think will be useful. In terms of answering directly as much as we possibly can with the information that is available today in this committee, bearing in mind that we do not have an international expert panel to put in front of the committee, I will ask if any of my clinical colleagues, specifically Dr. Peter McKenna, might comment on that.