Dr. Lorraine Doherty:

I thank the Senator for his question. We do monitor the outcomes from the screening programme on the incidence of cervical cancer. As the Senator will know, before the programme was introduced cervical cancer was rising by a rate of around 4% a year. What we know from our most recent data is it is decreasing by approximately 5% to 5.5% year on year now. The most recent data we have on that is from 2016.