Dr. Irene Regan:

I will take the capacity issue again. The Deputy asked how long it takes to train people. We have to look at one year, three-year and five-year strategies. Given the current environment, it will be very difficult to encourage people into cervical cytology; it is seen as a high-risk area now. It takes a minimum of two years to train people up in this area, and we have to look at how sustainable that is in the long-term to ensure that we will have people working in that profession in the future. The Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine is concerned with expertise, not just training a person up quickly. It will take two years, and it involves encouraging people to take up what is seen as a high-risk, difficult profession.