Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To be specific, I want to know how much it is going to cost and how the Minister is going to get every shilling of it back. Of course it would be better if we were not spending on that, but that is the Government's own business and its own ideology.

I have a few very quick questions. A couple of weeks ago my colleague, Deputy Funchion, filled in for me and the Minister made a commitment to give us an update on the CervicalCheck backlog. Can he give us that update now? What additional laboratory capacity has been sourced to clear the backlog? Where is it, has it been quality-assured and is the Minister confident that it will make a real difference to the backlog?