Mr. Stephen Teap:

I will make one comment in relation to what Kate said about auditing all women's last smears. I have also called for that but for two reasons, one of which is to alleviate the fear among the women of Ireland. They are terrified. When one hears Vicky's story, or Irene's story about two consecutive smear tests which have been misread and now she is dead, of course they are afraid. The Government and the HSE have a duty of care to alleviate women's fear and to do so quickly. Second, we do not know what the error rate actually is. There are so many different variations of what it is and we are being told by people who cannot back it up with any type of proof. As part of this investigation, we need to get our own proof on that and arrive at our own figure. We can only do that by doing our own audit of these. That is why I support what Kate said and those two reasons are why I think it should be done as a matter of priority.