Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will keep it as tidy as possible. Reference was made to scaremongering. The normal response from most women was one of terror that no one had read the smear, although it had been tested three years or two and a half years before. There was almost a perception that it was on a shelf somewhere and no one had looked at it. It is fine looking back at these things. Let us take ourselves back to where we were at this committee and at the Committee of Public Accounts. Many of those present were treated in an aggressive way. It was adversarial but that stemmed from our concerns about the system. We know the system has improved the lives of 65,000 people since it started.

On the question of capacity, a comment was made that the Minister was not helpful in sourcing capacity. What is the evidence for that comment or can it be retracted?