Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will make three quick comments before asking my colleague, Dr. Henry, to give specific details. We launched a plan a few weeks ago to ramp up capacity in our four cancer screening services. We did this to reassure the public and to encourage anyone with symptoms and a referral from a GP to come forward for screening. Our services have remained open during the period of Covid-19. Our key focus for these services is to protect the public and our staff. Some of the cancer screening programmes are more difficult in that regard. We have launched a plan which steps up capacity in all of them. I ask Dr. Henry to provide some specific detail.

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