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

The 80,000 women who will receive a test will be additional to the normal 20,000 tests that fall due every month.

Presumably they are the women who would have had their smear test in the normal course of events if it was not for Covid. Does the HSE have the laboratory capacity for that? I had suggested an information campaign and I am glad that it was taken up. If they all respond between now and Christmas to that campaign, as we all hope that they do, will we be back to another situation where tests are left for such a long time that there is a danger they might expire? That happened previously. Has the additional laboratory capacity been sourced, notwithstanding that there might be a second wave which would change things? As things stand, has additional laboratory capacity been sourced to be able to do that catch-up?