Professor Ann O'Doherty:

Yes. While I cannot speak for any other programme, it is the case for BreastCheck.

With regard to the HSE, I can say with hand on heart that BreastCheck has been well set up and well funded. If there was anything, we could do with more money in the symptomatic service in which I work. From the outset, there has been an understanding of the requirement. If one is to screen healthy women, one must be better if they present because one is dropping a letter on their doorstep and inviting them to come for screening. There has been an absolute understanding. I cannot complain about anything in the resourcing of our service. I mentioned the challenges in radiographic recruitment. We are doing our best. It is not an issue of funding. There has never been any issue with funding.

I do not have a comprehensive knowledge of what litigation cases are in front of-----