Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is regrettable. I also accept that when that decision was made, it had to be made in real time. I want to give the Minister the opportunity now to explain how we will address that because he said earlier that that is where the conversation needs to be focused. We are in a situation now again where we need to provide confidence to the 80,000 women who are waiting for those results. We need to speak to them directly. We have provided them with the smear test to reassure them. We now have a backlog. How can we reassure them in that regard? What will be the next steps?