Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary)
4:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source
It is happening; however, it is being rolled out over four years. Women aged 65 or 66 will have received invitations during the past few weeks. Women who are now 69 will be 70 or older by the time it gets to them. We can only roll it out at a certain speed, given that we must supply the kit and hire the radiographers and radiologists. It is happening on schedule.