Mr. Damien McCallion:

The number is still 209, but that will be added to. People are being added to it at the moment as the audit progresses. Of the 1,482 women who were part of the cervical cancer audit, 46 audits are still in progress and 12 are concluding. Once those are concluded, the women will be contacted about those audits. From that point forward and once the royal college process commences, any future audit will run through. To be clear, there are 12 women in the current audits and 46 in the ongoing audits. Those women will be contacted as the results are disclosed to them. I anticipate that, as the royal college process commences, which will happen in the coming weeks, we will cease all audits on the basis that we do not want two audit processes to be running at the same time.

Regarding the Deputy's question on medical cover, I am sorry, but I thought I had clarified that. There are medical consultants available to any of the call centres. We have medical consultants in Dublin to take those calls. Those calls are listed, co-ordinated and allocated to medical consultants. There is not necessarily a doctor in Limerick, but there is access from Limerick to medical consultant cover in Dublin.