Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We will bring in Deputy Donnelly to start the second round of questioning presently. The issue that arose last April with CervicalCheck surrounded non-disclosure of the audit. The audit was the icing on the cake for screening programmes. The programme looked back on people who had been identified as having cancer to see if their previous smear had been accurate. It was the non-disclosure of the audit results to those women which led to the controversy that raged at the end of April last year. The Minister expressed a lack of confidence in CervicalCheck management, but really he was, I assume, expressing lack of confidence in that element of the programme.