Mr. Damien McCallion:

We are trying to balance the public and private piece to reduce the dependence in terms of that. Equally, we need to be conscious that in terms of the skills needed, unfortunately, there is a huge dearth of those in this country. Our strategy is to try to build up that public capacity and build the national cervical screening laboratory. We have worked with the Coombe Hospital on that. It has committed to that and is working with us around it, but that will take some time to develop. We need to be careful to maintain a programme and develop a programme. As we do the tender for that, it is clear we will need to have a partner with us. Whether that partner is in Ireland or outside Ireland, we cannot control that in terms of EU procurement rules and so on for that market. Our objective is to build up a greater presence here in the public system and then, within the procurement environment in which we work, see how we will have a partner that will allow us to continue the programme because the programme itself was at risk last October in terms of the contracts and so on. In terms of future HPV primary screening, our objective is to ensure we deliver a solution that will work for that for the immediate future as well.