Mr. Donal Buggy:

I can perhaps address the Deputy's question. We did not know in March what the pandemic was going to bring to us in the context of the effect it was going to have on hospital capacity. As a result, we supported the decision to pause screening services at that time. Similar decisions were taken right across the European Union. Many countries shut down their screening services. However, many have also resumed services more quickly than we have in Ireland. What we need, or what we are lacking, is that ambition to get those screening services up and running and link them into the hospital capacity that is required to manage patients who have not gone through the screening programme and who need further diagnostics and treatment.