Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is that system better or worse? It was the failure of the named audit here which led to the controversy. The purpose of audit is to inform quality. No screening service is 100% accurate. Unfortunately, a number of people will always be missed.

Obviously the system is working if one compares the 65,000 people who have benefited with the 221 who had their smear upgraded on the audit - or 1,800 as the case may be. The audit is to learn from that rather than being an adversarial system.