Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps Professor Kerri Clough-Gorr could come in with her perspective on the overall national number of cervical cancers. She should speak to the microphone and not mind who is behind it.

It is hard not to make eye contact. It is a case of active versus passive registration. The CervicalCheck group does passive registration of cancer. When it is notified, it logs it as a cancer. What it does not do is actively determine whether every person who has gone through the screening programme has had a cancer. That is its process. Our process involves the responsibility to actively find cancer cases throughout the nation. That is beyond the public system; it is private and public.