Ms Marie Culliton:

It may have been. I do not have the figures for the particular year but it seems to have been a bad year. This is not an exact science. One is looking down the microscope and one is comparing what one sees with what one knows to be normal or what one knows to be abnormal. If one now knows that this woman has been diagnosed with a tumour or that following colposcopy she has been found to have cervical cancer, then one goes back to look at the review slide with a different lens to a certain extent. One is looking to see if it was there. Sometimes one may find it in a slightly different way. However, we need to look very carefully - and Dr. Scally will do that - at exactly what was happening, where it was happening and who was doing it. Something that goes from P2 to P9 is not good enough.