Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening

Photo of Kathleen FunchionKathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask the Irish Cancer Society about cervical screening specifically. I am one of the final speakers so I apologise if this has been raised already. Does the society have any information or figures on how many women are waiting for retests, particularly in the Carlow-Kilkenny region? These would not be initial tests but retests in cases where there were symptoms. Given the delays and everything else caused by Covid, does the society know how long the backlog is for that region specifically? If Ms Morrogh and Mr. Buggy do not have that specific information, maybe they could comment in general on the issue of the cervical screening and the delays relating thereto?

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