Ms Fiona Murphy:

I will take that. I thank Deputy Shortall. What the committee heard from Dr. Russell applies equally to all the other screening programmes. They are all back up and running, unfortunately at reduced capacity. We are all prioritising the safety of patients and staff. We have had a fantastic response from patients, particularly in our resumption of breast screening. The uptake in breast screening has been very high and we thank patients for their patience on that. We have had to move to a very different system with a reduction in the number of people who can be in our mobile units and in our centres.

In BreastCheck, we have invited close to 70,000 participants so far and approximately 46,000 have attended for screening, with another just over 2,000 attending for assessment.