Dr. Nóirín Russell:

It is important to emphasise that what we have done is restart screening. We are not going to "catch up". Catching up would mean doing double the work, that is, screening twice as many women in a month as we normally would. With Covid-19, we are dealing with reduced capacity across all areas of screening. In our wheelhouse, we have primary care, screening labs, colposcopy clinics and histology labs. There is reduced capacity in all areas across our screening programme and we will not suddenly be able to double up,-----